AAUW Lecture: Denali National Park Sled Dog Kennels 11/10/2026

On Tuesday evening, November 10 at 7:00pm in the Ilsley Library Community Room, the Middlebury branch of AAUW (American Association of University Women) and Ilsley Public Library will co-host a presentation on preserving traditions and wilderness in Alaska’s Denali National Park by Denali Park volunteer Jim Brown. Brown lived and worked in Alaska as a dog handler for Iditarod champion Jeff King, training Alaskan huskies and traveling over 8,000 miles by dog sled. On retiring, Brown returned to Alaska to volunteer in the sled dog kennels at Denali National Park. He will show photos and videos of life at Denali during the summer season and during the winter when the dogs are used by park rangers and scientists doing important research in the wilderness of the far north. Enter Ilsley Library through the rear, after-hours door. The next AAUW talks at Ilsley Library will be February 16, 2027, at 7:00pm on “Advance Directives Planning” by Taylor Murray and March 16, 2027, at 7:00pm, a women-led panel on “How Did You Get Here?”