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Winter's coming...grab your salmon sleds!

From: Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
Length: 05:09

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Coho20salmon_small If an Alaskan "friend" asks if you want to go salmon sledding, are you trusting or gullible if you take them up on it? In this piece, Melissa Roberts takes the bait, or the fish rather, and it made for some great Alaska radio in mid-winter.

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Piece Description

If an Alaskan "friend" asks if you want to go salmon sledding, are you trusting or gullible if you take them up on it? In this piece, Melissa Roberts takes the bait, or the fish rather, and it made for some great Alaska radio in mid-winter.

Broadcast History

Aired on the statewide radio magazine, "AK" produced by the Alaska Public Radio Network. Also featured on the writer's web zine Saltmag. www.saltmag.net

Related Website

www.akradio.org