Happy Memorial Day to all!!
Please say a prayer and give a thank you to all who have and who are serving our country. Their time, efforts and sacrifices give us our freedom!
Can’t believe it is 5 days since I updated – sorry to all who are following….
Thursday, we did a couple things around the MH and took a ride to Ester to check out the Gold Camp. It was still closed and we were told it will be closed this summer for renovations – :-((((. It was just a sort of hang out day after that!!
Friday we went to Pioneer Park. This is a neat little place that contains museums and touristy stuff. It was not fully open so we just walked around the Pioneer Museum – some real interesting artifacts, and the Gold Rush town. The town consists of 35 pioneer cabins relocated to Pioneer Part from their original locations.
This cabin was one of the earliest in Fairbanks (built in 1904). Some of the original mud can still be seen between the logs:
This cabin was taken from 4th Avenue, “the Red Light District”. “A board fence at each end protected the innocent from views of debauchery.”
This home was build in 1903 for $800.00 and has leaded windows.
This is know as a cache and used a lot in the north to store supplies and food and keep it safe from the bears and other wildlife.
Other artifacts at the park are the Harding Car. This railroad car was used by President Harding on his trip to Alaska in 1923 to drive the “Golden Spike” for the Alaskan Railroad.
This is the SS Nenana Riverboat. It was closed so I don’t have a lot of info on this.
From there we went to the local American Legion and had a great time. Everyone was so friendly and supper was wonderful. We will be going back – :-)))
Saturday, Sunday, and today, Andy and I both worked. Andy did a lot of the mowing and some cleaning up, plus relieving me at the visitor center. I manned the center and museum and also did some clean up and inventory, and some computer work for Alexis. We are both learning so much about the different birds and just love talking to all the people. We met one person on Sunday whose grandfather came from Minersville, PA (my hometown), another who is working in the building next to us from Allentown, and today I found out that there is an intern from Orwigsburg, PA (about 5 miles from my hometown) working at the Bird Observatory. (I got her name and will stop there this week.) What a small world.
Another neat thing is hearing everyone’s story – where they are from, where they are going, how they ended up in Alaska (residents)…. We have met very few people who are born in AK. Interesting.
On Saturday and Sunday evening, we went to supper at The Alaskan Salmon Bake in Pioneer Park. They were having their opening season special price (ended on Sunday). Salmon on Saturday, Prime Rib on Sunday – MMMMMMMM!
After our meal on Sunday, we spent more time in the Park. We took the train ride:
went thru the Tanana Valley Railroad Museum, and went thru part of the Riverboat - they were closing so we will probably go back again – :-)
This is another artifact – a Steam Operated Shovel. This shovel helped build the Panama Canal, worked in Hawaii, and helped dig the Davidson Ditch, “Alaska’s Water Pipeline”. Davidson ditch brought water from the Chatinika to float and operate the huge hydraulic gold dredges in interior Alaska.
And how about this:
And big excitement here – on Sunday morning we had a 3.7 magnitude earthquake, centered 10 miles south of Fairbanks… Nope, we didn’t feel it although we talked with others that did. Whenever Andy or I walk in the MH, it has movement so the MH may have moved but we probably thought it was the other one walking…
Our area has changed since it is warmer. This is our little pond that has dried up:
The fields have been plowed and planted with barley. This is the plowed field outside our motorhome:
And this is one of our resident cranes who visits the field right by us every evening:
We are now starting our 4 days off so stay tuned for our next adventure!
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