Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2005 This Library is Anything but Quiet By Nathan Bender, Former Curator, McCracken Research Library Norman Cousins (1915–1990), editor of Saturday Review for many […]
Harold McCracken
Harold McCracken’s Nature Writing – Points West Online
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2017 Harold McCracken’s Nature Writing By Mary Robinson In a previous, two-part Points West Online installment, Mary Robinson told of Harold McCracken’s adventures as […]
The Day I met Willis McDonald
Shortly after I started at the McCracken Research Library, our Director, Mary Robinson, came into my office one day. “Do you want to go to lunch?’ “Huh?” I usually just […]
Alaska Man, Part 2 – Points West Online
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2017 Alaska Man, Part 2 Click here to read part one… By Mary Robinson In part one of Alaska Man, we learned how Harold […]
Alaska Man, Part 1 – Points West Online
Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2017 Alaska Man, Part 1 By Mary Robinson “You’d take him for a schoolmaster, precisely like a schoolmaster, or maybe a scientist. Bald-headed, spectacled, […]
Exhibition: Out West Where the North Begins, Harold McCracken in Alaska and the Arctic
Past Exhibition Out West where the North Begins: Harold McCracken in Alaska and the Arctic, 1916–1928 June 3, 2017 – February 4, 2018 As part our Centennial celebration in 2017, […]