"When you work on a show with people, you become really close with them,” Rachel Blackwell said, summarizing how her extensive involvement in Fairbanks’ theater scene has helped her find her place in the community and made her a prominent member of it. “It’s like moving in with somebody for …
The sternwheeler Nenana is seen here docked at First Avenue and Lathrop Street on the Chena River after its final voyage from Nenana to Fairbanks in May 1957. It set at this location from 1957 to 1965 before being moved to its present site at Pioneer Park.
Naaxein became known worldwide as examples of one of the most complex styles of weaving in the world. The robes are made of mountain goat wool and cedar bark, found and harvested in the traditional territories of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian.
That yellow plastic disc, about 7 inches round, had a message stamped on it: If the finder returned it to the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, he or she would receive a $1 reward.
In 1898 the U.S. sent Army Lt. William Abercrombie northward in search of an “all-American” route to the Yukon gold fields. He chose the Lowe River/Thompson Pass route — the path now followed by the Richardson Highway.
