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.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/07/14EXHIBIT.mp3Steve Henrikson tells stories with things. Sometimes those objects go way back,