AkLA Outstanding Alaskana of the Year Award In recognition of works that make a significant contribution to the understanding of Alaska.   March  2008

In The Alaska Pen; An Illustrated History of Unga, the authors have recaptured their beloved Unga with actual excerpts from their high school newspapers, providing a moving portrait of the village in three parts, The Thirties, The War Years and the Aftermath. “If I were ever asked about where I would choose to be born, I would choose Unga.  We were all so lucky to have lived there as children with so many warm, loving, caring Ungaites in the peaceful, quiet town of our beloved Unga”.

Alice Knutsen Lauritzen Nilson 1915-2004