National Register of Historic Places sites in Aalska
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...
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...
John Ballaine was the entrepreneur primarily responsible for initiating construction of the Alaska Central Railway (ACR) across the Kenai Peninsula. He is also credited with founding the town on Seward, the southern terminus of...
The hamlet of Cooper Landing, on the banks of the Kenai River just west of Kenai Lake, is one of the Kenai Peninsula’s recreation meccas. The community traces its history back to the 1896-97...
This article is reprinted from the 1-14-2022 edition of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Photo and story by Amanda Bohman A 237-foot wooden steam-powered sternwheeler with five decks that was famous for plying Interior Alaska...
During Cordova’s early days (1908-1911), when it was a boisterous railroad boomtown, the religious and social needs of both construction workers and the more genteel town residents were served by an Episcopal social club...
We just returned from a trip to the Kenai Peninsula. Here are a few pics of the Orthodox church at Ninilchik. For those of you unfamiliar with Ninilchik, the old village is nestled in...
Old St. Nicholas church in Eklutna as it looked in the 1980s Eklutna, 25 miles northeast of Anchorage on the east shore of Upper Cook Inlet’s Knik Arm, is a small Dena’ina Athabascan community....
