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16. Fishing in Karluk
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We were in Karluk only a couple of weeks when Jacob Laktonen, the lay priest of the Russian Orthodox Church and an elder fisherman came to our cabin and…
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The Dutchman Hotel
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When Pop (Harry) Zdepski was sent to the TB Sanitorium in 1934, the eldest child John quit high school and got a job building two identical brooder houses for Kenyon…
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15. Alaska!
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In August of 1942 I graduated from Moody Bible Institute. I had decided that the place for me in the Lord’s work would be in Alaska. I knew that…
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When you are the product
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I came across this when shredding papers. We all get the emails from the Nigerian Prince, but one Mr Olivier Denis did me the courtesy of sending me a long…
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Pierogi for One
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I had lots of occasion to sit and visit with Mom Zdepski. I heard lots of stories about New York and life on the farm, exhausting most of my recollections…
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14. Moody Years
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In 1938, John LaRue and I left New Jersey in John’s Model A Ford Sedan for the trip to Chicago. This was before the Pennsylvania Turnpike was built. The…