To read the Alaska posts I recommend you either start from the main page (Prologue) directly under this post, or go to the Alaska category on the lower left hand side of the page – it will take you to a feed with all the posts in order from the Prologue to the Epilogue – you will have to go to a second page but that is easily accomplished.
Read MoreArchives for September 2016
Journey to Alaska – Prologue
This is my story. Part remembrance, part fact and a whole lot of my own perspective. Family members will disagree with this aspect or that detail. Some might see it in a completely different light. That’s okay – while we walk the same path, it’s a different journey for each of us.
Read MoreJourney to Alaska – Cover Page
p.s. this is more than a story of geography, it is also a journey of the heart. cave, lector…….
Read MoreChapter 1 – The Early Years
In 2007 Dad wrote a letter to my brothers and me giving a brief three page overview, a condensed version if you will of his life from 1950 up to just before our Mom died. It highlighted important events in his life as a young man; a husband to our mother; and as father to his first family.
Read MoreChapter Two – Getting Married
My mother attended school in Ohio before also deciding college wasn’t for her; and moved back home to Connecticut. My father was in Alaska working at the time. In October 1952, traveling from opposite coasts, my future parents met and married in Dixon, Montana at a relative’s home. Here, I’ll let my Dad tell you in his own words…
Read MoreChapter Three – Back to Connecticut
Both of my parents were raised in Connecticut. Within a year of getting married they decided to go back to spend time with their families.
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