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North to Alaska? No Ice Wine jokes, please!
I’m on the road this week, going north to Alaska to do programs for the World Affairs Council. I will be in Juneau to talk about the global Wine Wars on February 11, 2015 at 5:00 pm at the KTOO studios. The talk is free and open to the public. I’d love to see all my Juneau friends there. I gave a talk about Globaloney there a few years ago and had a great time. 
Then it is north once more to Anchorage for a program for the Alaska World Affairs Council It is a wine dinner event on February 12 with great food, interesting wines and some Extreme Wine stories to go with them.
The wine dinner is a fund-raiser for the World Affairs Council with tickets priced at $100 for AWAC members, $125 for non-members and $150 to sit at the VIP table with me. I did a similar dinner in Seattle last year and it sold out and raised a lot of money for the World Affairs Council, so I have high hopes for Anchorage. I will also visit a high school in Anchorage to talk with the students about globalization and answer questions about global markets, globaloney, global wine and (wearing my professor hat) college studies.
I am a big fan of the work of local World Affairs Councils and have done several programs in the past for the groups in Seattle, Portland, Tacoma and Juneau. World Affairs Councils make that critical global-local connection, bringing global issues home and fostering international understanding. I’m proud to support their work in Alaska and across the country.
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Hope you enjoy the trailer from the 1960 film “North to Alaska.” I think my visit will be exciting, but in a different way from the film. Looking for that video I stumbled upon this. What do you think?
Travel safely and have a great time! Lowell
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Dress warm and drink wine
Thanks. I see a glass of Port in my future.
Indian food in Anchorage! who would have thought? should be nice and warming on a cold 20 degree night.
have a great trip. If you see Mike or Dan from Anchorage Wine House tell them I said hello.
Will do, Daniel. I think they have organized the wines for the dinner.
See you soon! Thanks so much for supporting the Alaska World Affairs Council. I used to work for the Alaska World Affairs council, and now currently work at a wine store and study economics, so you are the perfect person to go see hahah.