{"id":18,"date":"2006-12-26T18:04:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T02:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/about-at-home-in-nome\/"},"modified":"2016-09-28T12:55:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:55:20","slug":"about-at-home-in-nome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/about-at-home-in-nome\/","title":{"rendered":"“At Home in Nome”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Monty,

With my boys picking blueberries<\/p><\/div>\n

When living in Nome, Alaska, in the mid-’90s, I wrote the “At Home in Nome” column for the weekly newspaper,\u00c2\u00a0The Nome Nugget<\/span><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In May 1994, I had nervously entered the Nugget<\/em>‘s office on Front Street with three columns I’d written. Editor Nancy McGuire was sitting at her front room desk wearing a large straw hat with a sunflower stuck in the band. She glanced over my essays, looked up at me, and said, “Which one should we run first?”\u00c2\u00a0“Shoes” was the first one published.<\/p>\n

I had conceived of the “At Home in Nome” as letters to my mother about what ordinary life was like in Nome, kind of like an Erma Bombeck of the Arctic. I later became fascinated with polar exploration and Alaskan history. The Nugget<\/em> encouraged me to feel free to write about any aspect of Alaskan life that interested me, so I walked to the library every day, read voraciously, and taught myself about our new state. I have not been back to Nome or Alaska since that time, and these essays are my memoir of that time in the north country. I later gathered and revised these columns, adding historical appendices and maps.<\/p>\n

You can read my original columns at\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/category\/travel-writing\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When living in Nome, Alaska, in the mid-’90s, I wrote the “At Home in Nome” column for the weekly newspaper,\u00c2\u00a0The Nome Nugget. In May 1994, I had nervously entered the Nugget‘s office on Front Street with three columns I’d written. Editor Nancy McGuire was sitting at her front room desk wearing a large straw hat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}