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Thanks so much for the wonderful article and photo of the Perseverance Trail with the horse-drawn wagons. I moved to Juneau at age 6 in 1959 and grew up there in the old Episcopal rectory at 4th and Gold streets (house that was the home of territorial governors, before the governor's mansion was built). My piano teacher was Carol Berry Davis (played player piano in theater in Juneau; author and collector of Tlingit music), married to photographer Trevor Davis. She used to tell me stories of riding on wagons pulled by mules or horses to the first dances in the miners' hall up at the end of the trail. The photo of the wagons you included in your Capital City Weekly article may have been the ones Carol Berry Davis rode on up the Basin!

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Thanks so much for the wonderful article and photo of the Perseverance Trail with the horse-drawn wagons. I moved to Juneau at age 6 in 1959 and grew up there in the old Episcopal rectory at 4th and Gold streets (house that was the home of territorial governors, before the governor's mansion was built). My piano teacher was Carol Berry Davis (played player piano in theater in Juneau; author and collector of Tlingit music), married to photographer Trevor Davis. She used to tell me stories of riding on wagons pulled by mules or horses to the first dances in the miners' hall up at the end of the trail. The photo of the wagons you included in your Capital City Weekly article may have been the ones Carol Berry Davis rode on up the Basin!

This was a big year for Southeast Alaska. As we have done for the past 31 years, the Capital City Weekly's staff and correspondents have worked endlessly to bring you news coverage from every corner of the panhandle.

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I was confronted by a surprising fact a few months ago while driving on the Glen Highway. My road trip companion, a friend from Connecticut, remarked that Alaska is probably the last state in America with both towns and vast swaths of land ceded to roadlessness. I couldn't believe it. I'm a proud and eager booster of Alaskan exceptionalism, but I was surely convinced that bastions of roadlessness must have persisted in the far-removed corners of the other 49 states.

GUSTAVUS - A fabulous prize awaits the winning team of the New Year's Day Treasure Hunt, to be held at noon Jan. 1, 2012 in Gustavus.

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GUSTAVUS - A fabulous prize awaits the winning team of the New Year's Day Treasure Hunt, to be held at noon Jan. 1, 2012 in Gustavus.

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GUSTAVUS - From the calm shores of Bartlett Cove at the entrance to Glacier Bay National Park, you can often hear the spouts of nearby humpback whales. For decades, researchers have been cataloguing and studying humpbacks in these waters, using photographs of tail flukes to identify individual whales.

FEDS LIKE FISH

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GUSTAVUS - Jessie Soder, an elementary teacher at the Gustavus School, recently returned from a 12-day marine science expedition helping NOAA scientists survey surf clams off the New England coast. Soder participated in the expedition as part of NOAA's Teacher at Sea Program, which bridges science and education.

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