Book review: The new collection 'Cabin Stories' brings the popular Alaska podcast 'Dark Winter Nights' to the page. The stories cover the mundane to the miraculous, but all express something interesting about what it means to live in the Last Frontier.
Edited by Rob Prince; Snowy Owl Books, 2022; 128 pages; $21.95.
A decade later, “Dark Winter Nights” has become wildly popular in Fairbanks and has attracted national attention. In 2021, The New York Times named it the best winter podcast for storytelling lovers. Needless to say, Prince has accumulated a substantial archive of firsthand northern tales during these years, and in “Cabin Stories” he brings 25 of his favorites to the page.
Ken Moore calls 911 when his lawnmower starts a grass fire in his yard that threatens his house and his neighbor’s property along the Chena River in Fairbanks. The city fire department arrives, handles the situation in their own fashion, and leaves, followed immediately by forestry department fire spotters who had rushed in from Murphy Dome after spotting the smoke. They are left with the job of extinguishing the flaming balls of debris that the fire department had swept into the river.
Tragedy of a different sort is found in Alyssa Enriquez’s account of moving from San Francisco to Nome, falling in love with the people and culture, marrying into a family she finds joy in being part of, and then witnessing the shattering loss when a member of that family dies by suicide.
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