Today was a beautiful sunny day. Of course, the temperature when I woke up this morning was 30 degrees below zero–oh well. Here is a photo of Immaculate Conception Church from across the new...
Valdez Creek post office in the 1990s The small log cabin shown in the drawing, built by miner Leburn Wickersham in the early 1900s, is one of the last buildings at the old mining...
I was out walking today taking photos of old buildings. These trees up against an old garage caught my eye. The photos are of the same group of trees from three different angles.
Usually, all we get coming through the neighborhood in winter is cow moose with calves. This morning a young bull moose hopped over our highbush cranberry hedge into the front yard. He breezed through...
After our recent snowfall, all the front yard fence posts were sporting new white top hats.
The most recent issue of the Alaska Historical Society’s newsletter, Alaska History Notes, had a half-page announcement about my upcoming book, put in compliments of the local Tanana-Yukon Historical Society. The announcement features my...
Bingle camp lodge as it looked in 2001 Bingle Memorial Camp is set on a picturesque 66 acre heavily-wooded parcel along the south shore of Harding Lake, about 47 miles southeast of Fairbanks. It...
Claypool/Berry houe in early winter of 2011 When James Wickersham became sole judge for Alaska’s new 3rd Judicial District in 1900, he was not a lone ranger tasked with bringing justice to Interior Alaska....
For countless years before Westerners entered Interior Alaska, only Athabascan Indians used the hot springs located on the northeastern edge of the Tanana-Yukon Uplands, near where Birch Creek meandered out into the Yukon River...
A few days ago there was a beautiful golden cast to the evening light. (In Fairbanks, evening in late December comes about 3 p.m.) Here are a few photos taken in my back...
