Modern Placer Drift Mining – Chatanika Valley, Alaska
When its -40° F. above ground, its only +28° F. underground I had a mining engineer friend who, knowing I was interested in modern mining as well as mining history, invited me...
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Mining Camp Blacksmith Shop–Fairbanks Creek, Alaska
Side of blacksmith shop at Fairbanks Creek. I was out at an old mining camp north of Fairbanks when there was just a little snow on the ground (way before the current cold...
Roadhouse Road Trip – Fall 2011
We took one last trip in our camper before freeze-up—a 500-mile round-trip down the Richardson Highway to Gakona Junction, up the Tok Cut-off to Tok, and then home via the Alaska Highway and Richardson...
The Alaska Road Commission – 55 years helping develop Alaska
An old horse-drawn grader (shown in the drawing) sits at the Alaska Department of Transportation offices on Peger Road in Fairbanks. Built by Western Wheeled Scraper in Aurora, Illinois, it is probably one of...
Art is Where you find It – Found Art – Formed Art
There is a weathered cedar fence beside my house and I get immense pleasure in watching it (simple things for simple minds). One of my art professors in college was very much into “found”...
The Trail to Eldorado, Chatanika Valley, Alaska
Last post I published a drawing of an old building at Little Eldorado Creek and talked about the area’s history. This time I’m putting up some photos from my hike out there a few...
Welcome to the YMCA – Old Door in Skagway, Alaska
Skagway may not seem to be related to Interior Alaska, but there is a link. This city was one of the main ports of entry to the Klondike, and when the Klondike gold rush...
If Vincent Van Gogh was a Paperboy
“The Starry Night” by Vincent Van Gogh – 1889 Delivering newspapers at 40 degrees below zero (part 1) The temperatures here is Fairbanks are dipping into the negative numbers at night, which reminds me...
Fairbanks Exploration Company revived Early Fairbanks
Old FE Company office building on Illinois Street in Fairbanks This drawing depicts the Fairbanks Exploration Company office building as it looked in 1992. This stately building, constructed in 1926, was the first...
1942 GMC truck I spotted along Alaska Highway
1942 GMC near Northway Junction, Alaska I drove down to the Beaver Creek (Canada) area this summer. Along the Alaska Highway near Northway Junction (approximate milepost 1260) sits this old 1942 GMC truck. Stenciled...
