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Wednesday, 10 March 2010
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It's kind of hard to figure where to put all the pieces--this is for general comments, kind of a Cork Board in the hallway.

You do not need to be a commune member to pin a note up on the board--thanks, wjlo
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Mark said:

May 21, 2009 Votes: +0

Mark
 Alaskan Dream

And a dream it was. Traveling up the Alcan with my dog and Winchester 30.30 in a little orange Datsun pickup, the year: 1980.

I was 23 and burned out on what I'd been doing and was looking to the Great Promise That Was Alaska. Some of the best times of my life were out on a roof pounding nails for a Wasilla contractor, with the radio cranked to KABN radio listening to the songs that were to become my background music for life the next three summers.

Whether catching Reds in Nancy Lake Creek, or driving over Hatcher Pass way too early in the year, there was only one station on that old cassette radio, it might just as well have been welded in place. I can't explain the feeling of being young in a Great Land, living free, working hard during the housing boom of the early '80's and just soaking it all in to my soul. And KABN always in the background. Man, where did it all go, the life, the dreams, the expanse, the thrill of living in a place where nature calls the shots and I only too happy to comply.

Yes, the subtle changes stacked one upon another to where I'm about as far away from that time and place as a man could be. I tear up with the memories flooding over me, man what a life lost, yet by it's very nature had to end for me.

If I had some of the KABN playlists from that time I'd seek high and wide until I had an IPOD loaded for days of pure pleasure, singing, listening and singing, about ALASKA....
 

Dieter said:

February 19, 2009 Votes: +0

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I think a pilgramige to the old site would be a good thing
 

John Stedman said:

February 17, 2009 Votes: +0

John Stedman
 finally made it

ok! now i'm officially registered. great to see you all here. meet this summer in Homer? sounds good.
 

gONZObLISS said:

February 16, 2009 Votes: +0

W.J. Lynus O'Brien
 Mid to Late Summer for renunion

I\'m so scattered with all my projects, money and energies I don\'t think I will be able to make it till July or August--but of course majority rules so lets see where it goes--Lynus
 

Scott Waterman said:

February 16, 2009 Votes: +0

Scott Waterman
 Reunion

Great Idea! We could do it in Homer.. a place for it exists there...When might be a good time?
 

Tricia King said:

February 15, 2009 Votes: +2

Tricia King
 Hey friends, happy to find you again!

Don't you think it's about time we had another reunion? Let's think about getting together sometime this summer!
 

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