I'm and old Fairbanksan who's spent 60 years here. I started my UAF attendance in 1966 out of Lathrop High School as an engineering student but had to leave for the Navy until 1971. I returned to start in the Anthropology undergrad program which had recently gotten a divorce from being part of the Geography department to become its own. But my undergrad work was interrupted when the Trans Alaska Pipeline pulled me away in 1974 to work on it surveying from Prudhoe to Valdez until 1984. Finally finished my BA in Anthro in 1994 and MA in 2003. I was director of the Tanana Valley Railroad museum at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks from 2007 to 2017. I am a member of the FNSB Historic Preservation commission at which Angela Linn was chairperson where I met here. The rest is history since my retirement in 2014 after 30 years working in the FNSB Planning Department.