Community members gather Tuesday to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the first ever non-stop flight from Anchorage to Fairbanks.
A wooden sculpture of aviator Noel Wien , created by Alaskan artist Amanda O'Neill, stands outside Pike's Waterfront Lodge July 3, 2024, in Fairbanks, Alaska.FAIRBANKS, Alaska - On July 15, 1924, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported that two “plucky” airmen had landed at Week’s Field.
One hundred years later, the Fairbanks community acknowledged that feat of aviation once again at a Tuesday evening event at Pike’s Landing. Planes occasionally soared overhead into and out of Fairbanks International Airport Tuesday, with their passengers and pilots quite possibly unaware of the parallelism that was not lost on those on the ground. For their part, attendees often smiled, whooped and clapped as the machines above them carved through the sky.
“It’s these shared stories that I think really ingrain in us what is so special — so special about Alaska, so special about the Interior,” said Murkowski, whose family is friendly with the Wiens. As the past was celebrated, issues from the present also seeped into the event as about a dozen Pro-Palestinian protestors made their voices heard from the sidewalk bordering Pike’s.
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