Posted by Wardner on September 25, 2011 at 21:03:30 from (4.154.237.93):
In Reply to: good show on tv posted by larry@stinescorner on September 25, 2011 at 18:12:04:
I had an aunt and uncle who lived on Lake Clark, Alaska from the '50s till the '90s. Dick Proenneke built his cabin on Upper Lake Clark. Not sure of the distance but it could have been 100 miles to the North. Anyway they preceded him by a few decades.
They lived with a few neighbors. Aunt got her pilots license and was able to get out to Anchorage once in awhile. They raised four kids.
In the summer, they operated a small glass jar cannery for salmon down on the Alaska Peninsula. That is the land mass that tapers into the Aleutian Islands. I spent the summer of '62 gill net fishing for salmon and canning. I first had to help build a small Quonset hut cannery, a dock, and hand drive a well point into permafrost. Product was shipped to patients of my doctor father who were allergic to commercial processed salmon in cans. Something about the chemical lining in the factory cans.
Although she couldn't see Russia from either location, my aunt won a seat in the Alaska congress.
My 16 year old cousin was lost at sea several years later. I could have faced the same fate when my uncle wanted me to tie off our 30' boat to a scow that was underway at night in 10' seas. He wanted me to jump from the pitching bow of our boat onto the larger craft. It's a good thing I was seasick because I might have otherwise. I could barely stand up.
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