Tagged: Fairbanks

Fairbanks Summer Folk Festival – 6-7-2014

Made it out to Pioneer Park this afternoon for the Fairbanks Summer Folk Festival. The weather was mostly sunny–temperature made it up to almost 80 degrees F. Lots of good music, good people, good...

Consitution Hall at Univeristy of Alaska Fairbanks played important part in state’s formation

Ernest Patty’s tenure as president of the University of Alaska (from 1953-1960) was a time of building. According to Terrence Cole’s book, The Cornerstone on College Hill, during those seven years the faculty almost...

A few old house in downtown Fairbanks west of Cowles Street

Spring is one of my favorite times for taking photo of old buildings.The lack of leaves on the trees provides a better view (at least for the purpose of checking out architectural detail. These...

Empress Theater brought several firsts to Fairbanks

Empress Theater as it looked in 2005, when the second floor still had one of its original multi-pane windows Austin “Cap” Lathrop never cut corners. He felt that doing a job right the first...

2nd Avenue cabin in Fairbanks was a safe haven for Clara Rust in 1909

Clara Rust cabin on 2nd Avenue as it looked in 1990 When 18-year-old Clara Hickman first set foot in Fairbanks in the fall of 1908, it wasn’t from a stage just arrived over the...