Tongass Voices: Malin Babcock on a life intertwined with Juneau history
Malin Babcock, 84, poses outside of KTOO in February, 2024. (Photo by Anna Canny/KTOO)
This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from the homelands of the Áak’w Kwáan and beyond.
Malin Babcock, treasurer of the Gastineau Historical Society, has lived in Juneau for more than 80 years. Her personal history is deeply intertwined with the history of the city and the state.
From the traumatic loss of her grandparents in Juneau’s 1936 l