This small Alaska town is swamped by cruise ship visitors every summer. But what happens when they all go home?

Skagway’s 1,100 permanent residents are caught between a boom time – when the ships bring more than a million tourists – and a lull in winterOctober comes to the small Alaska coastal town of Skagway like a sigh. The shops that were bustling throughout the crazed tourist season are reducing their opening hours or beg…

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