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Sanrene, my point is is that the ex gov. made statements about how this is how Alaskans fill their freezers, and the hunt that she went on was not at all reflective of the reality of people's lives there.
They hunt to fill their freezers, why yes indeed they DO. The point she was making is that people HUNT, not HOW they hunt.
I'm quite sure not every hunter has a TV with a camera following them around - you're right about that.
They hunt to fill their freezers, why yes indeed they DO. The point she was making is that people HUNT, not HOW they hunt.
I'm quite sure not every hunter has a TV with a camera following them around - you're right about that.
She's built an entire false image based on how she and Todd are "real people" and a lot of you out there buy it.
It would have been easy to have had the show portray a more realistic view of how people fill their freezers, but then Chuck Heath would have stolen the show.
She's built an entire false image based on how she and Todd are "real people" and a lot of you out there buy it.
It would have been easy to have had the show portray a more realistic view of how people fill their freezers, but then Chuck Heath would have stolen the show.
You mean hunting with her father or other family members is not a realistic view of Alaskan hunting?
Some get stranded. Years ago, the state had a "traveller's aid" program which supplied return tickets to those who came up and couldn't find work and needed to go back to wherever home was.
Lately there have been a lot of people coming up wanting to get into commercial fishing, probably because of the TV show "Deadiest Catch".
When this happens in small communities, crime does increase. Most of them, though, can usually find some kind of cannery work to get them back home.
We had a kid show up stranded and just happened to need some extra help for a week or so. He turned out to be such a good worker we wished he could have stayed on, but he was anxious to get back to Washington State.
You may have never been to NY but hard as it may be to believe NY and Alaska share something in common. The native born in NY are outnumbered by visitors, employees residing elsewhere, and hail from another origin. I had neighbors from Kentucky, coworkers from Georgia, and classmates from California. NYC in particular draws creative minded folks from all over the country, and all over the world. We adapted, but it wasn't easy, and some of the culture is gone for good I fear.
WV has a similar challenge with so many passing through. How to honor the past and still keep the soil fertile ground for new growth. The state could make itself a mausoleum choking out youth, or it could lose it's identity to new and improved MTV culture. Tricky balancing act. West Virginians are horrible about tooting their own horn rightfully. It's immodest to their sensibilities. It's a different kind of conservative, not the stereotypical one. Just like Alaska who didn't appear to me as being populated by loud mouths or fanatics.
I don't know - does Lawrence get 3.5-5 million viewers per episode?
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