Painting of Murray’s Roadhouse near Fairbanks by Marge Gull

This is one of the paintings by Genevieve Marguerite (Marge) Gull that is in the collection of the Valdez Museum. Marge was an amateur painter who did paintings of the old roadhouses along the...

Outside on Black Friday – A snowy November day in Fairbanks

I took the opportunity today to go for a walk in the woods behind my house.There was 8-10″ of fresh snow, most of it still unspoiled by snow machines. Partly cloudy with a temperature...

Haydon cabin evokes memories of homesteading days along Chena Slough near Fairbanks

Cliff and Orea Haydon’s cabin pm Chena Slough in 2014 The Badger Road area was settled by homesteaders beginning in the early 1900s.  However, before homesteaders started clearing land there was just Chena Slough...

“Ode of the North” by Joseph Ulmer (found tacked to the wall of a cabin on Deadwood Creek)

“Ode of the North” by Joseph Ulmer (found tacked to the wall of a cabin on Deadwood Creek)

Take a drink with a friend or friends when you have a chance. When using a man’s cabin and before leaving wash the dishes, leave shavings and kindling and as much wood cut as...

“Gold, Steel & Ice” book documents remarkable mining machines used in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve

I just received a fascinating book published this year by the U.S. Department of the Interior. The book is Gold, Steel & Ice, A History of Mining Machines in Yukon Charley Rivers National Preserve....

Eureka Lodge has served Glenn Highway travelers since road’s inception

  The original cabin at Eureka Lodge in 2013 The Glenn Highway, which stretches from Anchorage 179 miles northeast to the Richardson Highway, should perhaps have been named the Castner Highway. After all, Lt....