What is a sun pillar? | Earth | EarthSky.
One of my favorite sights in the Alaskan Winter, a light pillar. They are cause by ice crystals and NOT UFOs.
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I got to Valdez in November. I woke up the first morning and it was fucking cold. It was negative temps, windy and dark. They asked me if I was a “turn a wrench guy “or an “email guy”. I looked out the window and saw a full-size dumpster getting blown 30mph down the street and said, “I’m more of a computer guy.”
via So you want to be a heli ski guide? – Freeskier Magazine.
This made me smile. You haven’t lived until you see the Giant Eagle Supermarket dumpsters getting blown around the parking lot.
It was one of the greatest triumphs of the U.S. Army in 1942, and one of the boldest homeland security initiatives ever undertaken. A job, some said, that was better suited for Paul Bunyan than it was for inexperienced military men. But on November 20, 1942, on a remote vista in Yukon Territory, several hundred men braved the bitter cold to mark the end of an ordeal that few people thought possible: the completion of the Alaska Highway.An Army plane over AlaskaNational ArchivesAn Army plane over AlaskaAMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents Building the Alaska Highway, the story of nearly 11,000 Army engineers who battled freezing temperatures, ice and snow, mountains, mud, muskeg, and mosquitoes to blaze a 1,500-mile road through one of the harshest landscapes in North America, and take a huge step forward in defending the nation from threats in the Pacific.
via Introduction . Building the Alaska Highway . American Experience . WGBH | PBS.
November Is Native Heritage Month
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FRONTLINE probes the fault lines of a growing battle in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska, home to the world’s last great wild sockeye salmon fishery – and enormous mineral deposits.
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All kinds of new tours and programs at the Museum this Summer. Get on down there and enjoy.
I would definitely take the Walking tour of “Historic Homes of Old Valdez”. It’s a little known fact that after the earthquake of 1964, the ground was no longer stable for houses. Many of the houses were abandoned. But a few old sourdoughs moved their houses to ‘New Town’ – where you can still see them today!
From the Valdez Museum Website:
Tuesdays in June
(5th, 12th, 19th, & 26th)* “Drawing Upon the Collection” for students 4th – 8th grades.
Thursday, June 14th
“Historic Homes of Old Valdez” walking tour.
6-8pm
Thursday, June 28th
“Historic Homes of Old Valdez”
walking tour.
3-5pm
Stay tuned for more summer programs involving Gardening, Berry Picking & Jam Making, Book Signings, Walking Tours
at Dock Point and Old Town, and much much more!
