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Nuggets-Memories of mining and trapping: Eleanor Trepte Martin part 2

admin default — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:34:46 +0000

Host Holly Stinson continues her conversation with Eleanor Trepte Martin, who lived in the Susitna Valley in the twenties and thirties. She recalls mining in the Dutch Hills west of Trapper Creek, and trapping on the Yentna River in the winter.

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Memories of Mining and Trapping: Eleanor Trepte Martin

admin default — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:52:27 +0000

Host Holly Stinson visits with Eleanor Trepte Martin, who arrived in Alaska as a six- year-old in 1927. She and her mother Margueritte made their way to Susitna Station and eventually ended up in Talkeetna when her mother married Mike Trepte. Eleanor recalls mining in the Dutch Hills during the summer, and trapping along the Yentna River in the winter. Audio runs about a half hour.

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Nuggets-Bruce Gilbert on Talkeetna in the fifties and sixties

admin default — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:50:51 +0000

In this archived program, host Holly Stinson talks to former Talkeetna resident Bruce Gilbert about life around here in the fifties and sixties. Audio runs a half hour.

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Nuggets-Living at the Fairview Inn, 1939

admin default — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:06:33 +0000

Host Holly Stinson visits with June Scheele about the time 70 years ago in 1939, when she arrived in Talkeetna with her family. The Scheeles had just purchased the Fairview Inn with another couple. June’s mother, Nola Campbell, wrote the well-known books Talkeetna Cronie and Talkeetna Echoes.

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Nuggets-Local author Sandy Sturdy and “The Bird Who Would Not Sing”

admin default — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:49:04 +0000

Newly published children’s book author Sandy Sturdy and host Holly Stinson talk about the content and background of the book “The Bird Who Would Not Sing”, and how the life lesson in the book led to its publication.

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Nuggets-Gale Weatherell and Allan Dahl, part 3

admin default — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:24:09 +0000

Boyhood friends in the 1940’s in Talkeetna, Gale Weatherell and Allan Dahl tell more Alaskan stories and adventures in the last of this three-part series. Holly Stinson hosts.

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Nuggets-Gale Weatherell and Allan Dahl, part 2

admin default — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:00:45 +0000

Boyhood friends in the 1940’s in Talkeetna, Gale Weatherell and Allan Dahl reminisce in the second of this three-part series. Holly Stinson hosts.

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Nuggets-Gale Weatherell and Allan Dahl, part one

admin default — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:34:04 +0000

Boyhood friends in the 1940′s in Talkeetna, Gale Weatherell and Allan Dahl reminisce. Holly Stinson hosts.

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Nuggets: The Wallonas

Deborah Brocke — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:20:49 +0000

Host Holly Stinson talks with Phil and Judy Wallona, a family with fishing fever. You can hear about Phil Wallona’s jobs with the FAA in the 70′s and with Myron Stevens in the 80′s, along with a few stories of local characters.

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