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Steven John Of Mentasta Recalls Christmas: Stories All Night Long 

When It Was Christmas...They Had A Party For Two Or Three Days And You Might Get A Pair Of Canvas Gloves Practical, homemade functional foot...

Bunk-Bound At Christmas In Cabins, 1898 Gold Miners Reached For The Flour 

The Lonely Winter Days Of The Gold Rush In Copper Center Were Tough.  Just Like Today Sourdough Pancakes Can Cure Anything  Moon over the Wr...

Ruth Johns Recalls Her Very First Christmas In 1931 When Copper Center Lodge Baked Goodies For The Kids 

"Red Cross Had Little Boxes... Like A Gift Box" Harry & Ruth Johns of Copper Center. (Journal file photo)  Ruth Johns was moth...

LeNora Conkle Recalled Homemade Christmas Ornaments 

  First Christmas At The Nabesna Mine  As Told By LeNora Conkle, Nabesna Christmas, 1996  The first Christmas I spent out there we got snowe...

Christmas In Chistochina: A Story By Sy Neeley, As Told In 1996 

CHRISTMAS IN COPPER RIVER COUNTRY  Those Were Happy Times... Everybody Came In From The Traplines   By Sy Neeley, Remembering Chistochina  I...

Another Semi Dumps Its Freight On The Glenn – And This Time There's A Christmas Story Ending 

It's A Miracle! 20 Tons Of Fresh Food Saved Christmas For Bean's Cafe When Truck Hit The Ditch At Chickaloon  Headed into Anchorage...

Lucille Brenwick's First Christmas Was At The Chemawa Boarding School In Salem, Oregon 

A Doll, A Bag Of Candy, And A Christmas Dinner Lucille Brenwick was quite the lady. Although born in the log cabin town of Copper Center in ...

Dave Kendall Of Tiekel River Shot Up His First Alaska Christmas Tree With a .38 & Dragged It Home To Dinner 

"We Were Really Greenhorns When We Came Up Here" - Dave Kendall Of Tiekel River, On Bringing Down His First Spruce Dave Kendall, o...

Bea Poston Talks About Christmas In Chistochina: "Hard Times" With Homemade Presents 

Bea Poston Ran Posty's Trading Post For Many Years   Posty & Bea Poston at Sinona Creek, Chistochina. (Journal file photo) Bea Posto...

Walya Hobson First Saw Santa Claus When She Was Seven Years Old At School 

"We Used To Order Things In Catalogs" Walya Hobson was born so long ago in the wilds of Alaska that she had one of those pretty, R...

Bill Buck Remembers A Really Cold Copper Valley Winter 

COPPER RIVER COUNTRY JOURNAL  Bill Buck, Originally From Nome, Worked In Glennallen. Here's His Christmas Story  In 1998, Bill Buck, who...

History: Christmas, 1963 In Tazlina Was Challenging, As School Looked For Bus Funds 

Please Santa, We Need A Miracle!  Copper Valley School  Asked Alaskans To Send The School Their Flour & Cake Box Coupons  General Mills ...

When Sourdough Roadhouse Burned To The Ground 

  OLD-TIMEY ROADHOUSE LOST TO A CHRISTMAS FIRE Sourdough Roadhouse: Harry Nicholai with Bud Lawson (Photo, Linda Weld) One of t...

Walya Hobson First Saw Santa Claus When She Was Seven Years Old At School 

"We Used To Order Things In Catalogs" Walya Hobson was born so long ago in the wilds of Alaska that she had one of those pretty, R...

Millie Buck Recalls The Christmas Trains Of Chitina, With Candy & Oranges In The Snow 

Millie Goodlataw Buck: Magic Of A Small Child's Alaskan Winter  Old railcars in downtown Chitina. (Journal file photo)   Millie Buck was...