EPISODE · Aug 6, 2019 · 29 MIN
Koponen, Niilo Ph.D.: North to Alaska
from Radio Curious · host LeGov
Click here to begin listening People who crave space, freedom, adventure, and opportunities have long been attracted to Alaska. In June of 1996 I spoke with Niilo Kopanan, the son of Finnish immigrants who grew up in New York City and moved to a mountain ridge near Fairbanks, Alaska in 1952. At that time, land […]
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Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/[email protected]/1197-1-KOPANAN_NIILO_6-18-96_(8-6-19)_IA.mp3) People who crave space, freedom, adventure, and opportunities have long been attracted to Alaska. In June of 1996 I spoke with Niilo Kopanan, the son of Finnish immigrants who grew up in New York City and moved to a mountain ridge near Fairbanks, Alaska in 1952. At that time, land there was still open for homesteading. He located his 160 acres and filed a homestead on the ridge where he still lives. After several years there, in the mid 1950s, he returned to the lower 48 states to earn a Ph.D. Yet the magnet of Alaska pulled him back where he became a university professor and a member of the Alaska legislature, and he’s been there ever since. Niilo Koponen, Ph.D. recommends “The life story of Elizabeth Morgan” by Ernest Morgan. Originally Broadcast: June 18, 1996
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