Jane G. Haigh Historian Author Futurist
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Jane G. Haigh Historian Author Futurist
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Jane G. Haigh Author Historian Futurist
Alaskan author and historian Jane Haigh is now also a futurist. I began my career as a local historian in Fairbanks, wrote four books about the Klondike and Alaska Gold Rush, and then got needed a PhD in U.S. History from the University of Arizona in Tucson. I taught Alaska History for ten years at Kenai Peninsula College. In addition to my work as a historian and author, I have always been interested in renewable energy and concerned about the climate crisis we have brought on burning fossil fuels. After retiring from teaching and moving to Manchester, New Hampshire to be closer to grandchildren I have been thinking a lot about how we can build a more positive and sustainable future which inspired me to write a utopian futuristic novel.
Alaska Gold Rush History
Don't forget to visit Skagway to learn about the Klondike
and Alaska Gold Rushes.
I am now the publisher of the gold rush books through my Hillside Press
Searching for Fannie Quigley
Fannie Quigley was the iconic pioneer woman who arrived in the area that is now Denali National Park as a part of the gold rush. My biography was a labor of love that took 15 years to rescue her from obscurity. Published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press
Waiting for the Storm: a Green New Deal Novel
In my new novel it’s 2040 and electrician Jazz returns to her New Hampshire college town now transformed with light rail anchoring a net-zero sustainable linear town and reconnects with her college love, architect Kisala, just as a destructive hurricane is about to blast into the coast, where Kisala is planning to stay with Dan in the new- but unfinished - multimillion dollar solar house she has designed for him.
