Gwen Holdmann
22:05 - 22:37
“It's actually really timely because last, last night we just inducted Diane into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame, and that was like a really, really, really cool event and a cool opportunity to share some, some stories about her.”
- Speaker
- Gwen Holdmann
- Timestamp
- 22:05 – 22:37
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
Because she talks about the very— after the— well, there's the opening and then there's your story, and then we have Diane Carpenter, sort of the very early days of bringing electricity to Alaska. Yeah, thank you, Peter. It's actually really timely because last, last night we just inducted Diane into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame, and that was like a really, really, really cool event and a cool opportunity to share some, some stories about her. She's like a lot of these folks that are in this book where they're never like really looking for for self-aggrandizement, right? This was just really about a mission, about trying to, like, accomplish or solve a local challenge.
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