Category: Eastern Interior Alaska

Interior Alaska from Big Delta to the Canadian Border

Final week of “Interior Sketches III” Kickstarter campaign. Project is already fully funded – let’s keep up the momentum

  We are entering the final week of the campaign to fund the printing of my book, “Interior Sketches III, More ramblings around Interior Alaska.”  The campaign is in an excellent position – not...

“Interior Sketches III” Kickstarter campaign smashes through funding goal! Still time to pledge.

In the past two days our Kickstarter campaign has met and then greatly exceeded our funding goal! Thanks to an article in Thursday’s Fairbanks Daily News-Miner newspaper, our Kickstarter campaign went from about $850...

Kickstarter campaign for “Interior Sketches III” book reaches 50% funding. Still time to pledge.

The Kickstarter campaign to fund the printing of my new book, Interior Sketches III, More ramblings around Interior Alaska historic sites,” just reached 50% funding after only one week. The campaign runs for another three...

“Interior Sketches III” funding project is live on Kickstarter!

  The Kickstarter project to fund a first printing of my new book, Interior Sketches III, More ramblings around Interior Alaska historic sites, is now live and accepting pledges. The book features 70 historic...

Kickstarter campaign to publish new “Interior Sketches” book of historic Alaskan sites starting soon

I am planning to start a Kickstarter campaign in about two weeks (February 28)  to raise funds for a first printing of Interior Sketches III – More ramblings around Interior Alaska historic sites. The...

World War II-era telephone line still in use in Upper Tanana Valley

A portion of the Alaska Military Telephone Line along the Alaska Highway near the Canadian border The Alaska Highway, built in 1942, was not the only World War II-era construction project linking Alaska with...

Bureau of Land Management’s YCC program enriched lives of youth from across Alaska

The small log cabin show n in the drawing is the last vestige of the Bureau of Land Management’s Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) camp at Tanancross. It is the camp’s wellhouse, built in the...

Marge Gull painting of Sulivan’s Roadhouse

  This painting shows the Sullivan Roadhouse, which was about 278 miles from Valdez (86 miles from Fairbanks).  John and Florence Sullivan (veterans of the Klondike, Nome and Fairbanks gold rushes) built a sod-roofed...

Marge Gull painting of Beal’s Cache roadhouse

This is a painting by Marge Gull depicting Beal’s Cache, at approximately 257 miles on the old Valdez-Fairbanks Trail (about 108 miles from Fairbanks). It was located south of Big Delta near Donnelly Dome....

Haines-Fairbanks Pipeline supplied military’s fuel needs in Eastern Interior Alaska for 16 years

The Timber pumping station just north of Delta Junction in 2014 The Haines-Fairbanks Pipeline was a 624-mile long, 8-inch diameter line that carried fuel from Haines in Southeast Alaska to Eastern Interior Alaska military...