Our Town

In 1930 Chester Spencer opened a shop on First Avenue and established himself as the official agent for selling Revigator Water Jars. That summer he went on a promotional trip down the Tanana and Yukon rivers to give demonstrations and make sales. The following news stories are about his pro…

The following article is a partial transcription of an interview of John Joslin that was done in 1935. The part about his pessimism regarding the project of the Matanuska Colonists has been left out of this transcription.

He and his wife happened to be there on Aug. 25, the day seasonal workers at Denali traditionally celebrate Christmas, during a tourist season that compresses a year’s worth of holidays into 180 days.

We all know Delta Junction is famous for its wild buffalo herd. Here is the story of how all that happened from the pages of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.

Volunteers keep track of how far the kids run by handing out popsicle sticks each time they finish a lap. Each popsicle stick represents a certain distance.

Someone need a bear delivery?

The 1920’s were noteworthy for the Hollywood film industry and Fairbanks had a dog that became a famous movie star and was even part of Charlie Chaplin’s “The Goldrush” film premiere celebration:

Every time a kid completed an activity, he or she received a Kindness Coin. Those coins were spent on fresh produce — bags of blueberries and raspberries, banana, oranges, apples, tomatoes, snap peas and more.

Molly was there to help launch the Denali Film Festival, videotape an educational outdoor workshop with Alaska Project Learning Tree, and to meet some of her young fans.