This traditional Athabascan birch-bark canoe is on display at the Morris Thompson Cultural & Visitors Center in Fairbanks. It was constructed in 2013 by a Folk School Fairbanks class. The boreal forest (also...
I was walking though the woods at Pioneer Park today. Prickly Rose (Rosa acicularis) and Northern Bluebell (Mertensia paniculata) were in bloom–lovely flowers!
The first Christian missionaries in Eastern Interior Alaska did not follow the miners who began arriving toward the end of the 1800s. Rather, missionaries preceded the miners, following instead Hudson’s Bay Company as it...
Deadwood Creek is a 20-mile-long northeasterly flowing stream in the Circle Mining District. It tumbles down out of the mountains before meandering across flats and emptying into Crooked Creek a few miles east of...
The Central Roadhouse as it looked in the mid 1980s In the summer of 1896, Josiah Spurr, Frank Schrader and Harold Goodrich floated the Yukon River, investigating mining areas for the U.S. Geological...
This is just a thank you to everybody who supported my Kickstarter campaign, either through pledging or sharing the project with others. The funding campaign officially ended yesterday and we raised over $3000.00. That...
Spritis are high as we go into this final weekend of our Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for publishing my book, “Interior Sketches II, More ramblings around Interior Alaska historic sites.” We have met...
