Alex Hills.

• Position: Inside Alaska Business

In Finding Alaska's Villages: And Connecting Them, author Alex Hills tells how he traveled Alaska by bush plane and snow machine, braving extreme weather and rough terrain to bring telephone service to small villages across the big state. Alex worked In villages from Port Alexander In southeast Alaska to Kivallna and Noatak in the northwest, providing modern communication services as he went. He fell Into the rhythm of life In the villages, and he met Yup'ik and Inupiaq elders, learning about their strongly held values.

Hill also describes how he helped the state's telecom pioneers bring about an innovation that would forever...