A Wrangell podcast on a deadly 1908 shipwreck has won an award from the American Association for State and Local History, after being nominated by Alaska's state historian.
– most of them Chinese, Filipino and Japanese cannery workers.
“I intended for it to be kind of about an hour, when I set out,” Rooney said. “I wanted for people to hear a story about the Star of Bengal that was maybe something they hadn’t heard before. So I really went into: let’s get into different narratives and let’s pick apart who I think is embellishing or outright lying. Because that’s what I really like.”
“What drew me was the near-universal sort of conclusion for over 100 years from people who wrote about it was that there was really no way of knowing if the accusations about cowardice were true or not, it was always more like, ‘Well, we’ll never know,’” Rooney said, “And that really rubs me the wrong way. I just couldn’t accept that.”
Rooney isn’t a professional historian. Born and raised in Wrangell, he graduated Wrangell High in 2003. As a senior, he wrote a pamphlet on Wrangell. “My father was a fisherman and mother was a social worker,” he said. “I went to St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, I had great exposure to Lingít culture, Haida culture, and all that you have access to and Wrangell even today, and I sort of took it for granted.”
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