50 Year Anniversary for Alaska, and for a Great Alaskan.

I wanted to share an occasion of great celebration I attended on Friday night.  Helen Nienhueser had a gathering of family and friends to celebrate her 50 years in Alaska, as Alaska itself celebrates its 50th Anniversary. Helen is an absolutely remarkable woman who I am pleased to call a friend. She is one of those people about whom you keep discovering new things. You’ll never hear it from her, but every time I talk to someone else about Helen, I find myself saying, “Are you kidding?  I didn’t know she did that!”  After a while it became almost comical. I’ll try to share some…