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Book review: Tragedy and community are woven into the story of famed Fairbanks ‘bag lady’ Irene Sherman
Sherman’s story was marred by tragedy. Born in 1911 to an absentee ... of Sherman for the Sunday supplement in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, coming to know the woman who lived in a ramshackle ...
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Tricia Brown’s ‘The Queen of Fairbanks’ explores the tragedy and triumph of Irene Sherman
In the summer of 1996, after several years of drifting in and out of Alaska, I settled into Fairbanks, missing Irene Sherman by about 15 months. The town had drawn me since first laying eyes on it ...