Phelps, Dawn
A Desert in Bloom
Dawn Phelps
Columnist
Covered wagons lumbered along, heading west, as weary travelers looked forward to “better days” and the gold in California. The year was l849—the Gold Rush.
Many families from the...
Phelps, Dawn
The Fog Moves On
Dawn Phelps
Columnist
A few years ago, I was scheduled to attend an early morning meeting in a town about fifty miles from home. When I...
Phelps, Dawn
“The Best Age”
Dawn Phelps
Columnist
This past week several of the ladies in our community attended our monthly Tootle Time Tea at Tootle Books and Such in Miltonvale. ...
Phelps, Dawn
Alaska’s Cold, Cold Ground
Dawn Phelps
Columnist
From Dawn Phelps. My 96-year-old Uncle Cleve Humphrey from Alabama wrote this descriptive story of a moose hunt with my little sister Joan...
Phelps, Dawn
Alaska’s Cold, Cold Ground
Dawn Phelps
Columnist
I am truly not an authority on burials in Alaska or other places in the far north where the ground freezes down to...
Phelps, Dawn
An Alaska Funeral Part II
Written by my little sister Joan Humphrey
of Alaska
The burial. They had a graveside service for which I could only stay 10 minutes as I...
Phelps, Dawn
An Alaska Funeral Part I
Written by my little sister Joan Humphrey of Alaska
Dear Dawn & Tom,
Tom, I thought you would be especially interested in a funeral I went...
Phelps, Dawn
My Little Sister Joanie
Dawn Phelps
Columnist
It is difficult to accurately describe my little sister Joanie. She lived in Fairbanks, Alaska, for over forty years, and she loved it...
Phelps, Dawn
A True Alaska Story
Dawn Phelps
Columnist
Glenn heaved another spare tire on the back of his truck. “I might need that on the trip,” he thought to himself. For...
Phelps, Dawn
“No View Beyond Hill”
Dawn Phelps
Columnist
“Did you see that sign?” I asked my brother Gary as we drove along a narrow, hilly, curvy road in Kentucky. We were...
Phelps, Dawn
Tennessee Cornbread on New Year’s Day
Dawn Phelps
Columnist
I am writing this on New Year’s Eve. The house is quiet now, and businesses in town are closed. That’s fine. It is...
