
0:16
Gwen Holdmann
25:44 - 26:01
“I find out she'd just written a book at like age 90. She just published a book. I ran to the local bookstore, got the only copy they had of it, read it all night.”
- Speaker
- Gwen Holdmann
- Timestamp
- 25:44 – 26:01
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
And I find out she'd just written a book at like age 90. She just published a book. I ran to the local bookstore, got the only copy they had of it, read it all night. It was like amazing. And nowhere in there does she talk about the efforts she made around rural electrification.
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