Deborah Collins

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DIY: Camping Trailers

10 Camping Trailers for Your Next Adventure by xxlauraxx

Eagle River, AK

The Eagle River Trail Hounds cordially invite you to join us for A Day At The Beach!

September 3-4 Noon to Noon
Beach Lake Trails
4.3 Mile, 6, 12, & 24 Hour Foot Race

Eagle River Trail Hounds

Courtesy of Kristen Ashley, Author

Kristen Ashley

This pie was amazing. Ah-MAY-ZING!

And the pizza burgers fah-ree-KING rocked!

Now, you know I like to spread the love. I’m probably going to mention these recipes in a book. But I won’t make you wait for that…here they are!

Now, you know I like to spread the love. I’m probably going to mention these recipes in a book. But I won’t make you wait for that…here they are!

French Silk Pie

Pizza Burgers

Vote

Votine guide

Alaska Voting Information
Vote August 16, 2016 Polls are open from 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.

The Tom Sawyer Cure

There’s a piece of paper on my desk – it’s in limbo, waiting till it gets put in its proper place – it’s been there for a while, but maybe this post means it can finally move on – anyhow, this is what it says:

The Tom Sawyer Cure

The Tom Sawyer Cure

Barbara Brown’s Our Third Thirds

Images August 13, 2016

Kitchen

Firearm Preparedness

american wolf pack resurrected

Choose Wisely

Cut Carbs

Lady Sailor vocabulary

Perception August 13, 2016

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand

Shorpy August 13, 2016

Circa 1899. "Sidewheeler City of Alpena." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. The CITY OF ALPENA, launched from the Detroit Dry Dock Co. in Wyandotte in 1893, was one of several elegant paddlewheel steamboats operated by the Detroit & Cleveland Line out of Detroit. The line dated to 1849 and eventually included 10 large vessels, serving ports all over Lake Erie and Lake Huron. The impressive CITY OF ALPENA and sister ship CITY OF MACKINAC were 285 feet long and driven by 2,000-horsepower steam engines. They carried as many as 400 passengers along with significant cargoes of package freight, merchandise and foodstuffs. They provided a critical link to big cities like Toledo, Detroit and Saginaw in the years before completion of railroads and highways to the communities of booming Northeast Michigan. The CITY OF ALPENA was taken off the "Coast Line to Mackinac" in 1921 when the lumbering industry had moved to the West Coast and railroads connected most of the towns in the region. She operated afterward on Lake Michigan as the CITY OF SAUGATUCK, and ended up in the late 1930s as a barge, carrying pulpwood and later petroleum products. The once-proud ship was broken up for scrap in 1957. -- C. Patrick Labadie, Historian Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Circa 1899. “Sidewheeler City of Alpena.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.
The CITY OF ALPENA, launched from the Detroit Dry Dock Co. in Wyandotte in 1893, was one of several elegant paddlewheel steamboats operated by the Detroit & Cleveland Line out of Detroit. The line dated to 1849 and eventually included 10 large vessels, serving ports all over Lake Erie and Lake Huron. The impressive CITY OF ALPENA and sister ship CITY OF MACKINAC were 285 feet long and driven by 2,000-horsepower steam engines. They carried as many as 400 passengers along with significant cargoes of package freight, merchandise and foodstuffs. They provided a critical link to big cities like Toledo, Detroit and Saginaw in the years before completion of railroads and highways to the communities of booming Northeast Michigan. The CITY OF ALPENA was taken off the “Coast Line to Mackinac” in 1921 when the lumbering industry had moved to the West Coast and railroads connected most of the towns in the region. She operated afterward on Lake Michigan as the CITY OF SAUGATUCK, and ended up in the late 1930s as a barge, carrying pulpwood and later petroleum products. The once-proud ship was broken up for scrap in 1957.
— C. Patrick Labadie, Historian Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Oct. 12, 1953. "Becton Dickinson, East Rutherford, New Jersey. Reception room to entrance. Fellheimer & Wagner, architect." All this patio needs now is a charcoal grill. Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner.

Oct. 12, 1953. “Becton Dickinson, East Rutherford, New Jersey. Reception room to entrance. Fellheimer & Wagner, architect.” All this patio needs now is a charcoal grill. Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner.

Hydraulic Press

Hydraulic Press Finally Meets its Match

Raising Daughters

Raising Daughters