Donata and Harvey Zartman of Anchorage celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary July 15 at St. Patrick's Parish. A small dinner celebration was held Feb. 1 in Anchorage. They were married Feb. 1, 1956, in Fairbanks.
As a toddler, Corey Cogdell knew how to handle a shotgun. She could hit a spruce hen from 75 yards, a tin can from 50. As an adult, she's aiming to show the world just how talented of a markswoman she is at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games.
I was born in 1920 in New Almeno, Kan. I grew up in Klamath Falls, Ore. In 1937, my father, Frank Schnabel, returned from Alaska, where he had sought work during the Great Depression. He told me and my brothers about an old burned-out sawmill boiler, engine and carriage that could be bought for $500 and thought that this could be an opportunity to lift ourselves out of the manual laboring class.
Feeling a little hemmed in lately? If so, you’re not alone -- literally. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. is about to hit a major demographic milestone: Sometime in mid-October, the resident population of the country will hit 300 million.
How does this sound for your next vacation: A backcountry log cabin on a lake, with a fireplace and nothing to do all day but fishing, hiking, canoeing or relaxing on the porch with a good book.
SKAGWAY, Alaska -- For a moment, it seemed like Pocahontas County. There, right on the main street of this little town, a 1947 Baldwin steam locomotive was huffing and puffing and delighting tourists.
