Historic Fairbanks home offers glimpse of mysterious Kitty Hensley
Kitty Hensley is a bit of a mystery. No one is quite sure when she came to Fairbanks, when she married, or who exactly her husband was. Some say he was a lawyer from...
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Taku Chief a relic of Interior Alaska’s early riverboat days
When the tug boat Taku Chief began its career in Southeast Alaska in 1938, the age of steamboating on Interior Alaska rivers was dying. Gold mining, which had spurred a few decades of frenetic...
My Upcoming Art Show at Fairbanks Community Museum
This Friday, September 7, will be the opening reception for my new art show at the Fairbanks Community Museum in Old City Hall at the corner of 5th Avenue and Cushman Steet in downtown...
Old City Hall part of modernization of downtown Fairbanks
By the 1930s, residents of Fairbanks were fed up with the fires that plagued downtown. In its short life, the city had already experienced two district-consuming conflagrations and numerous other building fires. Consequently, in...
Creamer’s Dairy on a sunny August morning
I am working on a drawing of Creamer’s Dairy and popped out there yesterday to check on some building details. While I was there I took some more photos. At left is a photo...
McCarty Stamp Mill looks like it won’t survive much longer
On the same day we visited the Nordale Adit at the head of Wolf Creek, we also drove to the other side of the ridge and hiked in to the McCarty Stamp Mill at...
Headframe and garage all that’s left at historic Nordale Adit
We drove out to the Wolf Creek area northeast of Fairbanks this weekend to take a look at the Nordale Adit—the entrance to an old hard-rock gold mine. The mine (on the north side...
Exploring Boundary and Top of the World Highway
Boundary Roadhouse in 2000 When the military road from Fort Liscum in Valdez to Fort Egbert in Eagle was “completed” in 1900 it was little more than a rough trail suitable only for...
St. Timothy’s Church in Tanacross celebrates 100th anniversary
Current church, dedicated in 1981 I spent the day at Tanacross yesterday. The people of Tanacrosss, along with friends from all over Interior Alaska, were celebrating the 100th anniversary of St. Timothy’s Episcopal...
