A Village on Kodiak Island
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The school teacher invited everyone to use the gym for basketball.
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My shoe, the gravel airstrip, and the village. It wasn't too hard to climb out of the valley and see the village.
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The schoolteacher also ran a small community store.
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The community hall included a meeting room, village office, post office, and satellite equipment.
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School Teacher. He had worked around Alaska and had stories. He'd come up for the academic year, then motorcycle around lower 48 during the summers.
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The river had five salmon runs. Sports fishermen would come from all over, staying at a privately-owned lodge across from the village.
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Kids would come to my house and rummage through my stuff 🙂 I wonder what she thought of what I decided to take pictures of?
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stove, water heater, clothes dryer and coffee warmer. Everything you need runs on diesel #2
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Another view of church from airstrip road.
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a boardwalk down the center of the village.
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How many ways can you cook it? If only I knew then what I know now about how to cook salmon.
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Coast Guard would helicopter Santa to the six villages on Kodiak Island at Xmas and meet at school
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Sometimes we'd sit on the roof of the last house in village and watch the dogs harass the bears.
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Rural Alaska TV (Ratnet) was a mishmash of network TV, I weeks or months behind lower 48.
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Ascension of Our Lord Chapel, built by Russians in the late 1700s. Up by the airstrip.
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Washing clothes and wringing dry. It was electric!
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ratnet (rural alaska tv) satellite dish
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When water was calm, you could skiff into the ocean to see neighboring valleys.
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Before the Internet. Mail-order cases of food that would arrive on the mail plane.
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Outside community building, village office.
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the world outside the village.
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walking the ridge of the low mountains around the village. Mainlaind Alaska.
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Chopping wood for the banya
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Ascension of Our Lord Chapel, built by Russians in the late 1700s, overlooking Shelikoff Straits. You can sorta make out the mountains of the mainland.
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ViIllage Public Safety Officer (VPSO). Most of my 13 months, there was no VPSO.
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old deserted cannery. Karluk River was a major producer of salmon in the late 1800s
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Long story. A barge bringing diesel beached. It was stuck for many weeks.
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View from bush plane flying to village.
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Salmon thrown into the skiff
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Banya. Selected Rocks (that don't explode when heated), old oil drum, and a metal bucket of water to create steam.
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Seining (fishing with a net).
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Mouth of Karluk River. I used to play the game, last person in the world, here.
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Gonna scrape a deer hide.
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Spent the day fishing. It was getting late. We were worried about bears, so they tried to give me a Magnum, saying don't shoot a bear as you'll just make him made. Shoot in the air to scare them away.
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One of the larger planes to villages. Pilot loading a box i had send a month earlier from Buffalo. My stuff arrived same time as me.
