Articles
Herfst 2011
...Haines - op nog geen uurtje varen can Skagway - is een andere havenplaats in het zuidoosten van Alaska. Landschappelijk kan se plaats zich zonder problemen met Skagway meten, want ook Haines wordt bijna omarmd door een prachtige bergwereld. Maar met slechts één cruiseschip in de week ontbreken hier de grote mensenmassa's. ...
December 1999
...The day dawned a rather balmy 20 F, after a black-sky-and-bright-stars night in Haines, Alaska. Twenty miles to the north, hot springs warm the Chilkot River. Chum salmon know all the hot spots, and head upstream to lay eggs and die. Every other river within hundreds of miles is now frozen solid, a fact not overlooked by American bald eagles. ...
July 2005
...One day later, in Haines, we opt for a fishing expedition of an entirely different sort. A giddy ride aboard a converted school bus delivers us to the 48,000-acre Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve, which has nearly 100 nests. But in the fall, locals say, as many as 3,000 bald eagles gather here for the "Congregation," when they feed off the enormous fish population that migrates up the Chilkat River. ...
August 2003
...The New York Times article, which is appearing in other newspapers nationwide through the New York Times News Service, will help Haines foster a reputation as a haven for independent travelers, Glass said....
February 2005
"Community involvement," the standard cliché, doesn't come close to capturing the spirit and action that have structured the building, programs, collections, and services of the Haines Borough Public Library (HBPL), AK. Those achievements make HBPL the winner of the first annual award for the Best Small Library in America, cosponsored by Library Journal and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Haines is a remote community of 2600, about 70 miles northeast of Juneau as the crow flies, but that takes either half an hour by bush plane or three to five hours by boat. About 20 percent of the people who live there and use the library are members of the Chilkoot Indian Association or the Chilkat Indian Village, both Tlingit tribes native to the region. ...
August 2003
...I had a small epiphany when we awoke the next morning in our huge, immaculate room-with-kitchenette at the Roadhouse - not in the work in progress, but in a two-unit cabin off to one side. Here in Haines, a ferry stop near the northern end of the Inside Passage, on the southeastern Alaska panhandle, we had finally solved the problem with which no guidebook or Web site had been able to help us. How does someone not rich or retired, with little more than a week to spare, get a true taste of this land of marvels, the essentials of the Alaskan experience, including eccentric accommodation? ...
November 2010
Sometimes when the going gets tough, the tough guys go to Alaska. ...
August 2004
Seeking an underpopulated—and undiscovered—slice of paradise? Drop in to any of our 20 adventure towns, from burly Haines, Alaska, to serene Cedar Key, Florida, where you'll find cush, affordable base camps for spontaneous long weekends or a lifetime of wild fun.
April 2007
I have been migrating from Los Angeles to Haines, the prettiest little town in Southeast Alaska, for the last 40 years. Like the arctic tern in its epic 25,000- mile round trip journey and the salmon's primordial yearning to return to the clear waters of its birth, I come home. When snow-frosted peaks of the Coastal Range that hug the tiny berg and Port Seward come into view, I mist over. Alaska is to me austere, rugged and moddy, yet thrilling in its unrelenting beauty. ...
Blow by Blow Hisotry at Hand
January 17, 2010
Ben Hall stumbles upon intrigue and danger in an Alaskan house of hammers.
August 2009
...When not viewing mountains and glaciers, we stopped in gold rush outports Skagway, Ketchikan and Haines, which would probably have dried up and blown away long ago if it hadn't been for the tourist boom. ...
February 2004
HAINES, Alaska — Dave Pahl has a museum on Main Street featuring more than 1,200 kinds of hammers.
"I like hammers." ...
— Don Pitcher for Triporati
Located along a deep fjord in northern Southeast Alaska, the town of Haines (pop. 1,400) straddles a narrow peninsula. Out front is Chilkoot Inlet and directly behind lies the wide Chilkat River and towering peaks of the Chilkat Range. Historic Fort Seward — built in the early 1900s — is a focal point, with its white Victorian buildings, spacious parade grounds, and master totem carvers at Alaska Indian Arts. The town is also home to a couple of museums, including the unique Hammer Museum with more than 1,500 hammers of all shapes and sizes. The Haines Highway — one of the only roads out of Southeast Alaska — leads north, paralleling the ...