Going north, to Alaska.

Elena Tucker
5 min readFeb 4, 2024

So, last week I went back to the scene of the crime.

This, boys and girls, is called click bait. I’ve committed no crime (that you know of … or can prove). I am talking about something so totally different, so completely irrelevant to actual life, as to be of no interest to anyone. I’m talking about an old TV show. But it was a hell of a show.

It’s called Northern Exposure, and it ran from 1990 to 1996. It was the ultimate fish-out-water show. It took a Jewish doctor from New York, and placed him in the tiny town of Cicily, Alaska. This was a place where, when he…

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Elena Tucker

Writer and storyteller, immigrant, wife, mom, knitter, collector of jokes, lover of cheap, sweet wine.