When I wrote my post about construction of the Alaska Highway I mentioned the “Northern Staging Route,” the series of airfields through which military aircraft were ferried from the U.S. to the Soviet...
Angel on 4-7-2012 Angel on 4-8-2012 The temperature for the last two days continued to get up into the mid-40 degree F. range. So, of course, the angel continued to diminish. Here wings are...
Angel on 4-5-2012 Angel on 4-6-2012 Last couple of days have been getting up to almost 50 degrees F. The angel is certainly slimming down. Yesterday afternoon she lost her upper arms. Tomorrow she...
Dot Lake, located about half way between Tok and Delta Junction on the Alaska Highway, is a picturesque little town on the east shore of Dot Lake. The community did not really exist until...
Angel on 4-2-2012 Angel’s face 4-2-2012 Temperatures are starting to warm up again, and the angel is beginning to show significant changes. Angel on 4-3-2012 Angel’s face 4-3-2012 It has been especially interesting watching...
Frank Dunne cartoon of a Digger Known and Suspected! That makes us sound sinister, doesn’t it? Here is a listing of some artists who are colorblind—gleaned from a few days research on the...
Angel on Saturday, 3-31-2012 High temperatures in the mid 30s mean the angel has been s-l-o-w-l-y melting. The photo yesterday was taken about noon with the sun almost directly behind the sculpture. If you...
Nestled at the base of tundra-covered mountains in Kantishna sits the small log cabin pictured in the accompanying drawing. Built by Johnny Busia (pronounced boo-shay)in the early 1900s, the cabin, with its moose...
Angel on Thursday, 3-29-2012 The last few days have been partly cloudy, with temperatures cooling off slightly. Yesterday the temperature didn’t get above 35 degrees F. Consequently the angel’s metamorphosis is pretty much in...
