Tagged: Fairbanks

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...

Outside on Black Friday – A snowy November day in Fairbanks

I took the opportunity today to go for a walk in the woods behind my house.There was 8-10″ of fresh snow, most of it still unspoiled by snow machines. Partly cloudy with a temperature...

Haydon cabin evokes memories of homesteading days along Chena Slough near Fairbanks

Cliff and Orea Haydon’s cabin pm Chena Slough in 2014 The Badger Road area was settled by homesteaders beginning in the early 1900s.  However, before homesteaders started clearing land there was just Chena Slough...

Roadhouse paintings by Marge Gull

I was doing internet research and came across some roadhouse paintings done by Genevieve Marguerite (Marge) Gull. The image I included is her painting of the Timberline Roadhouse, which was a one-year-only roadhouse that...