Lynn Lovegreen
YA historicals in Alaska

July is Disability Pride Month! Read this HRW website for background information about the observance: https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/07/2...

From the early days of the District or Territory of Alaska, American settlers celebrated Fourth of July here. If you go to Alaska’s...

It's Pride Month, and Rainbow Book Month. I am always pleased to see displays of books in libraries, and this one is no exception....

View of Kachemak Bay Summer Solstice is a really big deal to Alaskans. The change in daylight throughout the seasons makes a difference...

Alaska State Fair, Palmer In the land of the midnight sun, we take summer seriously. Most of us have to deal with ice and snow for seven...

If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I value rainbow books and their authors. You may have seen 2023’s list of...

I recently visited Homer, AK as I attended the Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. I had fun meeting with fellow writers and learning from...

May is AAPI/AANHPI or Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. (Learn more about this at https://asianpacificheritage.gov/index.html .)...

I recently learned that May is Older Americans Month. It’s always good to honor our elders, who have worked and sacrificed much to give...

May 5-11 is Children’s Book Week! Most readers start their reading journey as children, and in some ways children are the most important...

April has many holidays and observances. One I haven’t highlighted yet is Neurodiversity Celebration Month, so it’s about time I wrote...

Denali and the Denali Park road National Park Week is April 19-27 this year, and it’s Earth Day on the 22nd, so it’s a perfect time to...

Happy National Arab American Heritage Month! This year’s theme is “Arab American Heritage: Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future.”...

April 6-12 is National Library Week, the time we usually celebrate libraries.   As you may know, libraries are near and dear to my heart....

April is National Poetry Month! As the Academy of American Poets states, it “celebrates poets’ integral role in our culture and that...

Note: This was first posted on the Romancing the Genres blog   Thanks to old Covid habits and retirement, I don’t get out as often as I...

One of the best things about winter is that it's raven time. This is the season when ravens hang around town. They can supplement their...

Arliss Sturgulewski, Photo from RadioKAOS, CC BY-SA 3.0 < https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 >, via Wikimedia Commons. Learn...

Ramy Smyth and team in the snowy year of 2022 You may know how the Iditarod sled dog race started: Joe Redington Sr. and a few others...

I’ve written about Fur Rendevous/Fur Rondy before ( https://www.lynnlovegreen.com/post/fur-rondy-running-of-the-reindeer ), as it’s an...