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Kathleen Sanderson wrote:
This building stood for sixty-two years. The Columbus Day wind storm of October 1962 blew our barn and many orchard trees down.
Nicole Alderman wrote:
Kathleen Sanderson wrote:
This building stood for sixty-two years. The Columbus Day wind storm of October 1962 blew our barn and many orchard trees down.
I was not alive for that storm, but have heard about it over the years. My mom's side of the family has owned land down in Oregon for over 100 years, too, and the elders in the family still tell of which trees fell down and where, and you can see the difference between the old growth trees and the new ones that grew up after that storm. It was a devastating storm! My family was not so near to the coast, so I don't think any houses fell down, but the trees sure did!
The grass is only greener where you water it.
Jessica Rankin wrote:So glad I saw this...!! We recently bought 5 acres near Florence on the Suislaw River and absolutely love it here. Very nice to learn some ‘new old stuff’ about the area and see it through your ancestor’s eyes. Thanks so much for sharing! 😎
Kathleen Sanderson wrote:It was a whole different world for me and my two younger brothers, since we were only familiar with the Interior of Alaska!
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Dan Boone wrote:
Kathleen Sanderson wrote:It was a whole different world for me and my two younger brothers, since we were only familiar with the Interior of Alaska!
Kathleen, I have to ask, because although Sanderson is a common name, the Interior of Alaska in those days was sparsely populated indeed: are you any kind of relation, that you know of, to a man named Charlie Sanderson, who lived in Eagle (on the Yukon, east of Fairbanks by the Canadian border) in the 1970s and possibly into the 1980s? I believe he moved away when his respiratory disease (what these days we would call COPD, although he called it emphysema) got to be unsustainable in a bush town with no medical support.
He was a colorful character, but since I was just a kid not someone I ever knew well. I remember him most clearly for his insistence on buying cottonwood from the kids like me who sold firewood for spending money; he called it "air conditioning wood" because, being fast-growing and low-density, it burned cool in his cookstove in the summer when all he wanted to do was make coffee.
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Dan Boone wrote:I figured it was a long shot but I had to ask. We moved to Eagle in 1973 and I lived there until I left for college in the late 80s. My parents lived there until they passed, my mom in the 90s and my Dad about ten years ago.
There was a real old-timer named Vince James when we moved there, related somehow to the Binkley family in Fairbanks and their small fleet of Discovery tour boats on the Chena/Tanana rivers, whose experience went all the way back to, I believe, cutting firewood for Yukon river steamboats. He was the only man left in town who knew how to make square-sided logs the old-fashioned way, using hand tools (adzes and such). Probably just another coincidence of names, though.
The wishbone never could replace the backbone.
Sonja Draven wrote:I really enjoyed your post too Kathleen and am happy to read anything about the area that you want to share.
I was at Woahink lake this week and saw a plaque and thought of your post.
I think they abandoned the plan because although there are small trees, they are suffering (They have been stunted and the same little size for years) from how manicured they keep the grass and they definitely aren't letting natural progression take over. But I still enjoy it there and the plaque was interesting.
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