Ross Coen is the next featured speaker for the
2012 John Trigg Ester Library Lecture Series. Coen is the author of T
he Long View: Dispatches on Alaska History, published by the Ester Republic Press, and
Breaking Ice for Arctic Oil: The Epic Voyage of the SS Manahattan Through the Northwest Passage, to be released this spring by the University of Alaska Press. Coen will discuss his book and talk about the snapshots of Alaska history and events it provides. "The Long View" was a monthly column that ran in
The Ester Republic for four years, covering topics ranging from Joe Vogler's letters to the editor to Sputnik to riding snowmachines in Denali National Park.
Examples of his writing are available
online, including "
Alaska or Bust," reprinted in
The Arctic Sounder.
Coen is employed at UAF's Center for Energy and Power as a rural energy specialist, a joint position with the Tanana Chiefs Conference, where he coordinates the development of small-scale alternative and renewable energy systems for Interior villages.
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