Spenard is one of Anchorage’s most iconic neighborhoods, named for a flashy character from the city’s past, Joe Spenard.
But who was Joseph Arthur Spenard? And why is there a road and a neighborhood named after a man known as a bootlegger and squatter?
Public historian David Reamer set out to answer those questions in his latest column for the Anchorage Daily News, and he spoke about it with Alaska Public Media’s Casey Grove.
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Casey Grove is host of Alaska News Nightly, a general assignment reporter and an editor at Alaska Public Media. Reach him atcgrove@alaskapublic.org. Read more about Caseyhere.
