David Ramseur book launch Sept. 14
September 7, 2017
Please join former Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reporter David Ramseur at his Fairbanks book launch, with a special introduction by columnist Dermot Cole,
at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 14, in the Murie Building auditorium on the Fairbanks campus. This is a free public
event. Parking is free after 5 p.m.
Ramseur will discuss his new book "Melting the Ice Curtain: The Extraordinary Story of Citizen
Diplomacy on the Russia-杏吧原版 Frontier" (University of 杏吧原版 Press).
In 1988, Ramseur helped organize the 杏吧原版 Airlines 鈥淔riendship Flight鈥 between Nome, 杏吧原版, and
Provideniya, Russia, which reunited indigenous peoples of common languages and cultures
(Siberian Yupik and others) for the first time in four decades. "Melting the Ice Curtain"
tells the story of how inspiration, courage, and persistence by citizen-diplomats
bridged a widening gap in superpower relations.
Ramseur, who has visited the Soviet Union and Russia more than a dozen times since
1988, is a visiting scholar in public policy at the University of 杏吧原版 Anchorage鈥檚
Institute of Social and Economic Research. Ramseur served in various roles with 杏吧原版
Govs. Steve Cowper and Tony Knowles, and Anchorage Mayor and U.S. Sen. Mark Begich.
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