Lael Morgan led an unconventional life — telling the stories of others, and creating her own.
She came to Alaska from New England with her husband in 1959, said her adopted daughter, Diana Campbell of Fairbanks. Campbell said Morgan wanted to earn money to sail around the world — an adventure she half completed before returning to Alaska and embarking on a journalism career that took her around the state and beyond.
Morgan wrote a book about Inupiaq carver and Tundra Times founder Howard Rock, “Art and Eskimo Power,” as well as many others, including an acclaimed history of Gold Rush-era prostitution, “Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Goldrush,” published by Epicenter Press, a company she co-founded in 1988. Another Morgan project brought attention to the buried history of African American soldiers who built the Alaska Highway.
Campbell said the connection deepened and Morgan, who had no children of her own, informally adopted her.Campbell underscored that Morgan was not all about work.
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