The most important work we can do, individually and globally, is the healing and prevention of traumas so that we don't pass them down to future generations. This blog is a working tool to contribute to this good work.
+THE ALASKAN NEIGHBORS
1959 - May - glacier formed over neighbor Thomas' road - like they did on our road. These homesteaders staked their claim further back on the valley floor, past Pollard's, moved out and never returned
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1959 March - neighbor's house at bottom of mountain, I think Pollard's
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1959 - January - Dad, Jeep station wagon with chains on tired, at neighbor Pollard's houseMother writes in her early 1958 letters about working at Bockstahler's Alaskan Woodcraft Shop. This is a picture of their sign along the old highway from Anchorage looking toward the river.1958 August we lived in Bockstahler's cabin ('shack') down the Eagle River Road into the valley. This is the cabin where I had my 7th birthday right before our first move into Panoramic View Apartments on Government Hill, Anchorage
Stop the Storm 
Wow, brutal as your life was then, the photographs are really a treasure!
There are hundreds of slides I have here – yet to be scanned, worked with – just not ready YET!!