Circa 1940s drawing of Edgerton Highway and Copper River by Olive Malstrom Carl

I came across this while going through a box of drawings. I bought it at a rummage sale years ago for a few dollars. The artist is Olive Malstrom Carl, who was a well-know...

Roadhouse paintings by Marge Gull

I was doing internet research and came across some roadhouse paintings done by Genevieve Marguerite (Marge) Gull. The image I included is her painting of the Timberline Roadhouse, which was a one-year-only roadhouse that...

LeTourneau Sno-freighter, a Cold War giant makes Arctic transportation history

On a hillside along the Steese Highway south of Fox, Alaska sits a relic of the Cold War, a “sno-freighter” used in the mid-1950s to move supplies from Central Alaska to the Arctic coast...

Drawing of wolverine tracks in the snow

Drawing of wolverine tracks in the snow

With snow on the ground here in Fairbanks I thought I would put up this drawing of wolverine tracks in the snow that I recently completed. This is another tiny drawing, only about 3.5″...

Raindrops and juniper berries – October 2015 in Fairbanks

 Yesterday was a drizzly rainy day here in Fairbanks. The precipitation let up for a while in the afternoon and I went out into the front yard to find sparkly raindrop decorations adorning everything....

A walk down Minnie Street in Fairbanks – October 2015

View from Illinois Street looking east down Minnie Street towards Noyes Slough The powers that be keep talking about “improving ” Minnie Street,” which connects Illinois Street with the east side of town. Minnie...

Nagley’s Store in Talkeetna – legacy of a frontier merchant

Nagley’s Store in the 1970s when it was the B & K (Barrett & Kennedy) Trading Post Horace Nagley (1875-1966) was one of the first merchants to establish a store in the Susitna Basin....