In the remote town of Whittier, Alaska, nearly every resident lives, works, and goes to school inside a single fourteen-story building. In this episode we explore how this unusual community came to be, why almost everything happens under one roof, and what daily life is like in a place cut off by mountains and reachable mainly through a one-lane tunnel. Discover the history, the practicality, and the surprising sense of community behind “the town under one roof.”

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