The farmhouse and barns at Creamer’s Dairy (constructed between 1905 and 1950) could easily have been lost. The dairy closed in 1966, the victim of changing market conditions and new health regulations brought about...
If you want to get a feel for Fairbanks history, a good place to start is by walking down Cowles Street from 1st Avenue at the Chena River to the Noel Wein Library. Cowles...
Downtown Fairbanks from new Barnette Street bridge The new bridge across the Chena River in downtown Fairbanks isn’t open to vehicles yet, but pedestrians can cross it. Here are a couple of photos I...
I love taking photos in the Fall. Architectural details, even whole buildings that were hidden by the leaves of summer, are suddenly visible. These photos show the side of an old warehouse here in...
Kitty Hensley is a bit of a mystery. No one is quite sure when she came to Fairbanks, when she married, or who exactly her husband was. Some say he was a lawyer from...
The Downtown Association of Fairbanks and Project Fairbanks have teamed up to add some sparkle to Fairbanks by having local artists paint the vent pipes in the downtown area. The central business area is...
I love the patterns and contrasts that Autumn leaves make when they have fallen to the ground. Here are some photos of the leaves on the stone path in my front yard.
This past Friday was the opening for my month-long show at the Fairbanks Community Museum. We all had a good time. The event was well-attended and I got to talk to a lot of...
Autumn is definitely here. The garden is pretty much harvested and we have had several frosts. (I actually had to turn the furnace in the house on–oh well…) I went on a drive up...
When the tug boat Taku Chief began its career in Southeast Alaska in 1938, the age of steamboating on Interior Alaska rivers was dying. Gold mining, which had spurred a few decades of frenetic...
