A modern Alaska artist helps preserve Chitina history
Spirit Mountain Artworks (old tin shop) in the 1990s Emil Goulet moved to Alaska in 1931 looking for work. He stopped in Chitina on his travels, and in his book, Rugged Years on the...
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December sunset in Fairbanks from West Ridge – UAF
I just happened to be up on campus at about 2:30 this afternoon. Can you believe that this photo was taken only four hours after my sunrise photo?
December dawn in Fairbanks from Wendell Street bridge
I took this photo at about 10:30 this morning. Temperature was about 0 degrees F.
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...
Wire, Snow & Sky – Late November 2015 in Fairbanks
Some close-ups of the fence around the community garden behind our house on a cold, snowy November day.
“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...
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....
Dredge buckets in the snow – October 2015
This another photo from my recent foray out into the fresh snow.
Old churn drill in the new snow – October 2015
We had some wet white slop fall about a month ago, but today we started getting a proper snowfall, a light dusting of dry fluffy snow. I went out to take photos and saw...
