We are on countdown!  May 7th, the four of us sisters leave on our trip to SE Alaska and our ‘roots’.  Hubbies are staying home this time, to work or feed the pets or mind the manor or deal with mail or whatever else happens along.

Our plan is to post something every day or so on our jaunt down memory lane.  For three of us, it has been 50 years since we were there….really!  This was something our Mom wanted us to do, and thanks to her, we have our reservations made, contacts with long time friends made, and Book #2 finished!  Book #3 will be compiled following our trip, so we can include ‘now’ photos along with all the ‘then’ photos.  Oh, you missed that?

Summer on the homestead

Several years ago we published Book #1, Children of Glacier Point.  This is the story of the first couple years of our folks homesteading near Haines, Alaska.  Book #2 continues on using all the diaries we could find, things Mom remembered, and bits we’ve added to those specific memories.

Book #3 will be more of a ‘coffee table’ style, including several multi-page accounts our parents left on particular events, a number of category sections to include many memories we have that we do not have a date for, and multiple ‘then’ and ‘now’ photos as we continue to dig through those unsorted boxes of ‘stuff’.  We think Mom and Dad would both be pleased we are doing this.

Book #1, and Skookum Jim which is poetry our Dad wrote, are both available at Brainstorms Publishing and Book #2 will be listed there soon.