Palmer Museum

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.