The first Orthodox Chapel to be built was built by group of fisheries workers who had settled in Umnak on what is now Unalaska Island in the late 1760’s. The original church is shown in the Alaska State Library’s Heritage Collection … Continue reading
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Something strange is going on at St Julian’s Church in Janiuay. We first visited, this church complex in Janiuay during late 2011 or early 2012, it was a thrill at that time and our love affair with it continues. We … Continue reading
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Ketchikan and area are situated in a “Temperate Rain Forest”, an interesting factoid, given that it is in Alaska. But don’t that fool you! We’ll talk about that a little later. Ketchikan then named itself “Salmon Capital of the World”. Hmm! … Continue reading
Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska and is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site that includes magnificent and historic national parks in both the USA (particularly in Alaska) as well as in Canada in the Yukon and Northwest Territories. … Continue reading
The Charlie Hedbo Assassinations! Many of our regular visitors may be wondering why we placed these items in our sidebar in the past 24 hours. The Charlie Hebdo Assassinations have caused us to do this to show that we are in … Continue reading
We’ve boarded our Grayline of Alaska coach and as we head west back towards Skagway we see that the country side is almost completely bare and it apparently has been like this since 1896 to 1898 and the situation only worsened … Continue reading
The Trail of ’98 is leads us into Carcross where we hope to gain an appreciation of the hardships encountered by the ‘stampeders’ in their desire and quest for wealth and riches! On our route today, we pass through one US … Continue reading
Here are four or five short YouTube Videos on the Klondike Gold Rush…they are the last of what we will be directly discussing about the Gold Rush. Our next episode will get back to the Alaska Cruise, She Who Must … Continue reading
The late Bishop of Krishnagar the Most Reverend Louis Laravoire Morrow, SDB, wrote many books on the Catholic Faith and two of them were: My Bible History: Old Testament and My Bible History” New Testament. We have just added those … Continue reading