Alaskan Prospectors Society

Greg Durocher - President of Friends of Nike Summit - was MP at Nike Site Summit from 1974 - 1976. He will present on the historical significance of the Nike Site Summit which operated from 1959 - 1979 in the brutally windy and cold environment of the Chugach Mountains overlooking the city of Anchorage and the Arctic Ski area.

PART 1. Bill Rome - Photographer Extraordinaire, Retired Dentist & Historian - shows the second part of the two-part PBS film documentary - The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced - which retraces the historic route of railroad baron Edward H. Harriman's ambitious journey in 1899. The 2001 Expedition follows the 1899 route and documents the many changes over the past 100 years from Southeast Alaska to the Bering Strait. This is a must-see program to "know and see Alaska" with historic and present-day content.

David Ramseur - historian, author & former senior aide to two Alaskan governors and one of its US senators - will speak about the heyday of Alaska-Russian relations and the new Cold War between the US and Russia. Author of Melting the Ice Curtain: The Extraordinary Story of Citizen Diplomacy on the Russia-Alaska Frontier.

David Ramseur moved to Alaska in 1979 where he reported on politics and government in the state and national capitals for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and Anchorage Times. Beginning in 1986 for nearly 30 years, he served as press secretary, communications director, chief of staff, and foreign policy advisor to Alaska Governors Steve Cowper and Tony Knowles and to Anchorage Mayor and U.S. Senator Mark Begich. Ramseur has visited the Soviet Union and Russia more than a dozen times starting with the Alaska Airlines' "Friendship Flight" in 1988, and lived and worked in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in 1993.

Cover photo of David visiting the memorial to Vitus Bering in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, in July 2018. In 1725, Bering was sent by Russian Czar Peter the Great to explore the strait between Asia and North America to determine if they were connected by land ( http://www.davidramseur.com/photo-gallery.html ).

Joe Hemphill - Development Chief and External Affairs Officer at Covenant House Anchorage - presents his work at Covenant House helping youth facing homelessness in Anchorage, Alaska. Covenant House serves young people experiencing or at risk of homelessness or human trafficking with absolute respect and unconditional love. Their ultimate goal is to help each young person move on with their lives in positive ways with counseling, education, stable employment, and secure housing