July 8, 2014
George and I went to
downtown Palmer to tour the museum again.
One of the volunteers was an original colonists and still lives in the
home her mom and dad built in 1935. Her
family came from Minnesota and she doesn’t really remember any hardships on the
travel up. She just remembers
playing. The other volunteer said she
and her husband lived at Independence mine back in the 40’s before they shut it
down. Her husband was one of the
miners. It is so remote and was
fascinating to meet someone who actually lived up there. She said it wasn’t really bad living there. She had a new baby to keep her busy. She would order her groceries on Tuesday and
someone would bring them on Friday. By
car it took us about 45 min. I can’t
imagine what they went through.
Later, our friend
Merve came by from Kansas. He is on his
way to Fairbanks to do some dredging but we couldn’t convince him to stay the
night. He had a friend in Eagle River he
was planning to stay with.
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