It was July 1, 1776, and in Philadelphia’s hot, stuffy Pennsylvania statehouse, members of the Second Continental Congress—including Benjamin Franklin and John Adams—were discussing Thomas Jefferson’s draft of what would become the Declaration of Independence.
Janice Tanaka Tower ’84 and her brother, Matt Tanaka ’81, bike over the Alaska Range, across the subarctic interior, down the mighty frozen Yukon, and on to the Bering Sea during the 2025 Iditarod…
