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Month: April 2016

CROSSING THE STRAIT (Part One): Visiting The Barge Line
CROSSING THE STRAIT (Part One): Visiting The Barge Line

CROSSING THE STRAIT (Part One): Visiting The Barge Line

April 28, 2016 Tara Neilson 0

 My mom bought an antique rocking chair from a cousin of hers who had been living in Ketchikan, about thirty-seven miles to the south of us. The problem after that was getting it out here […]

Hobbies & Crafts: Sea Glass Candles
Hobbies & Crafts: Sea Glass Candles

Hobbies & Crafts: Sea Glass Candles

April 21, 2016 Tara Neilson 0

 It may have slept at the bottom of the sea in a deteriorating hulk until rolled in a storm tide and set free to roam until it’s tumbled and ground on a gravel or rock […]

The Last Great Spring Herring Spawn
The Last Great Spring Herring Spawn

The Last Great Spring Herring Spawn

April 15, 2016 Tara Neilson 0

At this time of the year we hear floatplanes flying low over us every day, in ever wider circles. They’re spotter planes, sent out to search for the schools of herring that spawn in the […]

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The question was: how to move a building from point A to point B in the bush with only one or two men? In 2006 longtime Meyers Chuck residents Ed and Marian Glenz sold their [...]
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