Funny Alaska Stories

By Michael R Dougherty and Mary Jane Dougherty

Funny Alaska Stories that take you on a ride through some Alaska fun. Guaranteed to make you smile.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael R Dougherty
• Release date: Oct 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201118143

Michael R Dougherty

Picture this - When I was only 3 years old I went to Alaska... I took my parents with me. We lived in Alaska for many years and had many adventures. You'll love this series of short stories about my humorous Alaska adventures. Enjoy Michael R Dougherty Anchorage Memories.com

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Table of Contents

Funny Alaska Stories

Alaska - Just for Laughs

What's a Calaskan?

We're Moving Where?

The Popeye Effect

Mom's Hiding a Chocolate Bar in the Medicine Cabinet

The Anchorage Snow Suit Caper

Never Whistle at a Moose

Sledding on Thin Ice

I Got My Earrings from a Moose

The Frozen Christmas Tree Lot

How to Get a Moose to Say Cheese

Dynamite and the Alaskan Outhouse

How The Double Musky Became World Famous

The Anchorage Film Caper

The Great Strawberry Patch Raid

The World's Best Chili

The Alaskan Mosquito is the State Bird

Anna and the Shotgun go Flying Backwards

Revenge of the Snow Angel

Top 10 Questions About Alaska

Santa Clause Lives Here

Meet Mike and Mary

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Alaska - Just for Laughs

Where ever we go, when people learn that we're from Alaska... their eyes get big and a smile breaks out across their face.

Yes, Alaska is a big land, heck, it's the Great Land.

And it's a land full of... fun.

The following stories are mostly true. They are all fun and guaranteed to make you smile... Unless you are a sour faced crab apple.

Now here is a warning.

These stories will make you want to read more fun stuff about Alaska. But that's OK because the link below will make you happy.

Michael R Dougherty and Mary Jane Dougherty

What's a Calaskan?

by Michael R Dougherty

Yes, I'm an Alaskan.

Now when you meet an Alaskan, you may be expecting them to look like this.

Alaskans wear red plaid wool shirts.

Alaskans wear big wide suspenders, holding up rugged work pants.

Alaskans were rough, tough work boots.

Alaskans wear those wool hats with floppy ear covers.

And Alaskans wear big bushy Alaskan beards.

But I have to tell you...

Some of the women in Alaska... don't look like that.

Actually, I was born in California but I was raised in Alaska - so I guess that makes me a Calaskan.

We're Moving Where?

by Michael R Dougherty

When I was just three years old, we were living in Northern, California.

One evening my dad, Ray Dougherty, came home and said to my mom, Louise Dougherty, hey, let's move to Alaska. 

Now my dad had served in the Army during WWII and he was on an anti aircraft gun crew. During the war, he was sent to Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. On the way to Adak, his flight stopped in Anchorage, Alaska. My dad saw only a little bit of Anchorage, but he thought Alaska was beautiful and he decided then and there that he would like to return some day.

So here we were in Northern, California and dad comes home and says, hey, let's move up to Alaska now.

At the time, I was three, my sister Anna was two and mom was expecting our little brother Tom. But as amazing as it sounds, mom said yes, let's move to Alaska.

And after some fancy negotiating on my part, they agreed to take me with them.

So we went north, way north - north to Alaska.

The Popeye Effect

by Michael R Dougherty

When I was five years old, my family lived in a small log home near downtown Anchorage, Alaska.

One evening, at dinner time, something happened that I'll never forget. And it was all because of a cartoon character.

Now when I was a small boy, one of my favorite cartoon characters was Popeye. You know... Popeye the sailor man.

"I'm strong to the finich, cause I