Tomorrow is last chance to see my Ramblings through Historic Sites art show
Tomorrow, 5 pm till 8 pm, is your last chance to see my art show at the Grange Gallery in North Pole. The show contains 30 new pen & ink drawings of historic buildings,...
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The Haines Cut-off: From Native trail to modern highway
The Chilkat Pass corridor, crossing the Coast Mountains in Southeast Alaska, connects Lynn Canal with the Kluane Lake area of the Yukon Territory. The 1977 environmental impact statement for the Shakwak Project, a joint...
Ladd Field near Fairbanks grew rapidly during World War II
Ladd Field, now Fort Wainwright, began as an Army Air Corps cold weather testing facility. Initial operations began in September 1940 even though the only portion of the field completed by then was the...
Historic Wasilla Community Hall comes full circle
Chris Stern was a Swedish immigrant who, according to Wasilla historian Coleen Mielke, immigrated to the United States in 1886 and then moved to the Matanuska Valley in 1898. In 1913 Stern staked a...
Anchorage’s old post office/court house building still a vital part of downtown
Anchorage’s old U.S. Post Office and Court House building is shown in the drawing. It is a poured concrete structure, and was part of an Anchorage building boom that began in 1936 and continued...
Fairbanks – 12-27-2021 – Out my back door after the storm
We had a major storm roll through Interior Alaska over the weekend – almost 2′ of snow, followed by temperatures near 40 degrees F above 0, rain and wind. Everything is now coated with...
APU’s student center was the site of momentous meeting for the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
The Student Union Complex on the campus of Alaska Pacific University (formerly Alaska Methodist University), is one of the most impressive buildings in Anchorage. The primary architect for the three-building unit, constructed in 1966,...
Art at the scrap pile – old railroad iron at the Friends of the Tanana Valley Railroad museum
I’m a member of the Friends of Tanana Valley Railroad, which restored an old Porter locomotive and operates a museum at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks. A couple of days ago I checked out the...
Eager Beaver Breakfast Take-out – Chena River – 7 AM – 5-16-2020
I went out for a walk this morning along the Chena River and saw this beaver taking breakfast home. The beaver’s lodge is just upstream from where I took the photo.
