Oil on exhibit: What Alaska’s past says about its future

Steve Henrikson has worked at the state museum since 1988. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/KTOO)The State Library, Archives and Museum opened recently in Juneau with a new display that includes a piece of the trans-Alaska pipeline as part of an exhibit on the oil industry. But the drama of the state’s current fiscal crisis puts that history in a new light.
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Steve Henrikson tells stories with things. Sometimes those objects go way back, like woven baskets from 6,000 years ago. But par