

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: HISTORY NIGHT! Connecting Alaskans with Dr. Alex Hills
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 19 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: At a history night earlier this year, you heard how the U.S. military once worked to build Alaska’s infrastructure – and that included the state’s first rudimentary communication system.

On Monday January 19, Dr. Alex Hills will continue the story, describing how the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force later built a telecommunication system that helped to connect Alaskans across our great state. The system was then passed on to civilians, who expanded it to connect all Alaskans.

After his own service as a U.S. Army Signal Corps officer and company commander in South Korea, Alex arrived in rural Alaska and played a big role in continuing to build that telecom system. He worked to create two of rural Alaska’s first radio stations, which provided a basic communication service for villages across western Alaska. Later he worked in many of those same villages, building a telephone system that connected them to each other, to Alaska’s cities, and to everywhere Outside.

With his wife Meg, Alex lived and worked in rural Alaska for most of the decade of the 1970s.  He will tell us of his adventures continuing what the military started and working to complete the state’s telecom system. And Meg will join him to tell a few of her own stories about how, as a bush nurse, she used shortwave radio to help people living in the villages. 

It promises to be an evening filled with great stories. Don’t miss this FREE event!
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/palmer/history-night-connecting-alaskans-with-dr-alex-hills/200029503918646
- **Event Categories**: trips-adventures
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 23

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029503918646?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=palmer-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Palmer
- **state**: AK
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Palmer Moose Family Center 
- **lat**: 61.5958
- **long**: -149.11886
- **full address**: Palmer Moose Family Center , 1100 S Cobb St,Palmer, Alaska, United States
- **location**: Palmer Moose Family Center

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Palmer Historical Society Alaska (https://allevents.in/org/palmer-historical-society-alaska/23303430)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 19 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Palmer Moose Family Center , 1100 S Cobb St,Palmer, Alaska, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Palmer Historical Society Alaska
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** trips-adventures
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about HISTORY NIGHT! Connecting Alaskans with Dr. Alex Hills ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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