Episode 3: Camp Cruise Town
Juneauites are a lot like whales. Some are year-round residents -- enduring or even thriving during the cold and wet off-season. But some migrate in for the summer -- making a splash when they arrive ...
20 Nov 201921min
Episode 2: The Whale and the Head Tax
Juneau has a new park featuring a life-size statue of a humpback whale breaching from a reflecting pool, complete with water works. The statue was privately funded, but the park where it lives was alm...
13 Nov 201924min
Episode 1: The Making of a Cruise Town
On this episode, we go back -- not to the 1880s when Juneau was founded and steamships started coming north, but to the 1980s when Juneau made a conscious decision to change its destiny. We meet two p...
6 Nov 201917min
Coming this November: Cruise Town
This year, cruise ship passengers outnumbered local residents in Juneau 35 to 1. That's why the KTOO news team is making a podcast about how we got here, what it's like to live here and what the city'...
22 Okt 20192min
