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January 5, 2017 – Snowy, blustery day at the Chena River
I walked down to the Chena River last Thursday just before sunset. It had pretty much stopped snowing, but the wind was drifting in the tracks I had made just a few days before....
January 2, 2017 – Dawn over the Chena River
I took this photo just before sunrise (about 10:45 AM) from the bank of the Chena River behind my house.
Parts of the Valdez-Eagle Trail can still be walked
Segment of Valdez-Eagle Trail at Eagle Trail State Recreation Site in Fall 2016 In the wake of the first wave of stampeders to the Klondike Gold Rush, U.S. Army Captain P.H. Ray was sent...
Vole tunnels in the snow – Fairbanks – December 2016
I went tromping through the woods today. We received about 15 inches of fresh snow in the last couple of days, followed by winds last night that strewed snow, leaves, branches and what-not around. ...
Anchorages’s Fourth Avenue Theatre is opulent sister of Fairbanks’ Lacey Street Theatre.
Anchorage’s Fourth Avenue Theatre as it looked in 1971 A few months ago, a funeral was held in Anchorage for the city’s Fourth Avenue Theater, Austin “Cap” Lathrop’s opulent re-imagining of what the...
2017 Sketches of Alaska calendars are out
I just picked up calendars from the printer. These calendars, including the cover drawing, feature 14 historic sites from Deadwood Creek near Central to Eureka Lodge along the Glenn Highway. I will be selling...
Clarence Berry had major impact on Interior Alaska mining history
Berry Camp along Eagle Creek at about Mile 103 of the Steese Highway Clarence Berry was one of the “Kings of the Klondike,” that small cohort of early gold-seekers who made fortunes in the...
Minnie Street Bridge and Northside Grocery and Gas brought Slaterville into the modern age during 1950s
Northside Grocery as it looked in 1969 After 1939, when construction began at Ladd Field, and well into the 1950s, Fairbanks experienced a population explosion. Terrence Cole’s report, Historic Resources of the Minnie Street...
