Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Anchorage Place Names by Rae Arno

This delightful collection of the stories behind familiar place names in the Anchorage area easily fits in the glovebox and is perfect for perusing while waiting for summer road construction lines to get moving.

The Who and Why of Streets, Parks, and Places takes us from the early homesteaders of the Anchorage bowl, through a hundred years of political high rollers, through locomotive engineers, music teachers, bankers and bootleggers.

The history of the little towns that Anchorage grew over like Muldoon and Spenard, dog sled trails that turned into major byways, and helicopter pilots from Vietnam are illustrated with interesting historical photographs.

A fun read: meaningful, adventurous, and sure to offer a better appreciation as to the importance of the place names that we take for granted.

To purchase this book, click on this link.

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