Tagged: Bert Bingle

Palmer’s United Protestant Church dates from early days of Matanuska Colony

Palmer UPC as it looked in the 1980s. The church is also called the “church of a thousand trees.” The federal government finalized plans in the spring of 1935 to relocate families from Wisconsin,...

Bingle Memorial Camp namesake was indefatigable worker

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...