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Here is the presentation that Jessica and I gave at the Alaska Homestead Expo 2024 in Big Lake Alaska. The embedded YouTube Autopatch link video can be found here. Some links did not line up correctly when viewing the story and they are actually just below the text. There...

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The Short Version of the History of the Iditarod The story of the Iditarod actually started many years ago in 1925. in January 1925 the children of Nome were dying after getting infected with diphtheria. The epidemic put the entire village of 1,400 at risk. A quarantine was ordered,...

The Visit In September 2023 we visited the Crazy Horse Memorial just outside of Custer South Dakota while we were visiting relatives in Rapid City. Understandably, the town itself is not “Custer” and is actually named “Crazy Horse” to show that it is not in Custer. We stopped by...

After planning for almost 2 years, our youth leaders, Carson and Rachel, were able to put together an amazing trip to Guyana for our youth group here in Willow, Alaska. So many issues came up with this trip, but God preformed one miracle after another and worked it out...

In September 2023 we visited Mount Rushmore in South Dakota while we were there visiting all the South Dakota and Wyoming relatives. We had always heard about it along with seeing it in pictures and movies, but we had never seen it in person. Mount Rushmore was sculpted between...

We are blessed to live in Alaska, which allows a lot of subsistence opportunities for its residents. You have to be a resident for many of these subsistence opportunities so that cuts down the risk of overharvesting by eliminating the out of state people. Hunting and fishing licenses are...

Alaskans definitely have Christmas spirit and it shows with many of the decorations and events that are held throughout the state in towns big and small. Christmas and just the whole season in general falls in the darkest time of the year where we struggle to get six hours...

Preparing for Christmas in Alaska We do live in Alaska, which does get a fair amount of snow in the winter, so we decided to decorate the house and property to make it feel more festive for Christmas. The Alaskan days get long and dark so some good Christmas...