Here are the next two pages for volume one. Including the last page of the first letter. We were in Alaska for 4 years but only one of mom’s Alaska letters were saved. For the second part of this book, my plan is to use other photographs taken from our time in Alaska adding stories that were told and my memories. Which admittedly are few. I was 5 when we left.
Renaissance Ann 
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There’s that Bendix! I just love the panel, dressed to the nines and better to view the Melmac display. Brings back a flood of memories. We got Sear’s catalogue and scissors instead of toys! Even if you didn’t save the Alaska letters, there is so much interesting stuff to look at here.
I can’t enlarge the page with the letter.
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Got the link fixed it should open now.
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Great art, as always, Ann.
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I the rug were full retail, the freight would have been about 14%. Alaska! Still don’t we just wish those were today’s prices. Ann, you really should have let your dear Mom sleep!
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As I got older I got quieter. Apparently, when it was light out in the middle of the night it was my nature to get up get dressed and go outside on adventures. Mom and dad tell stories about how they would awake in the morning only to find me dressed and outside having a grand time. Mom said she never worried because we were living on base.
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That is such a wonderful tale, worthy of its own post! We were gone all the light time too, as kids – our Mom’s would find themselves in hot water today!
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I sometimes ponder how we got to the point where parents today operate totally from fear. And I wonder what that is doing to the kids of today.
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Good point. I fear we will find out all too soon, for it will be a generation who weren’t allowed to figure anything out on their own.
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