In this Nuggets program originally aired in 2009, host Maureen McLaughlin sits down with Trapper Creek resident Jean Richardson, who reminisces about the adventurous life of her late mother Mary Carey — Upper Susitna Valley schoolteacher, journalist, photographer, homesteader, activist, fiddlehead fern farmer, and lodge owner.

Audio runs about a half hour.

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