On the tour was Pioneer Park, that's where we were for the Salmon Bake a couple of days ago. Then downtown to the Morris Thomas Cultural Center where she led us through the museum educating us on Mr. Thomas and the many displays and artifacts he brought together from the many tribes of the Athabaskan people in the area. He was a much loved man by everyone. Outside the MTCC is an Antler Arch which is designed to bring those who pass under it "good spirits" and it leads to a walking path. There were six of us on the tour and Gail took a picture there of each couple.
A stop at Golden Heart Plaza in downtown Fairbanks where in the center stands the statue of the Unknown First Family, "a monument to the unwavering spirit of the families past, present and future who endure this land with pride and dignity". From there we also saw Immaculate Conception Church which was originally built on one side of the river in Fairbanks then moved a few years later just across the river in order to save the priest's time commuting back and forth to the hospital which had been built on the opposite side of the river. The church was moved by a team of horses which pulled the church across the frozen river on a log trestle. Holes were drilled through the ice, log pilings were driven into the bottom of the river and the log trestle was built on top of the pilings.
A short drive out to the oil pipeline. You might remember we stopped there already on our own. It hadn't changed at all since we were there.
Our last stop was at the University of Alaska Museum of the North where we saw artifacts from a ten foot grizzly, which greets you as you enter the exhibit hall, to dinosaur bones, to works of art.
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| I've never seen an outhouse like this one! |
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