Fashion Means Your Fur Hat Is Dead: A Guide to Good Manners and Social Survival in Alaska

This book will be a humorous introduction to the culture of Alaskans. Subtitled "A Guide to Good Manners and Social Survival in Alaska" Good manners there were never written by Emily Post or Miss Manners! If you have been there, you will be ready to go back!

When my wife and I first moved to Alaska in 1987 we wanted to find out what Alaskans were like so we could try to fit in. We looked around and found Mike Doogan's guide - plus all of his weekly articles giving advice on how to live like a real Alaskan. (The other guide we found was Jeff Lowenfells.) I took Mike's advice seriously! Now 16 years later I had a chance to listen to Mike in person and he said his newspaper column was a humor column! So now I have all this stuff in my driveway - so my house will look like a real Alaskan home - and what am I going to do with it all? So beware! Reading this book is not for those who want real advice. It is instead a book joking about some things some Alaskans do, but not how you should really try to live just to fit in. But if anyone reading this would like to buy some stuff for your driveway - please give me a call!

If you have ever gotten the chance to meet or visit with the folks from rural Alaska you will know these are facts of live. Told in a very humorous way. Good reading you can't put down. Great for folks that may never get there but want to know the facts of Alaska life!