Author: jz
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So, You Want Write a Post about “Family”
As much fun to write as to read! This is a very short guide if you or another family member or friend of the family wants to write a Post…
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21. Return from Alaska
Upon our return, we stayed for a while with Ruth’s parents (William and Hazel Mull)and then for a while with brother John and Leona. About this time I began to…
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20. Return to Kodiak
We arrived in the Easter season. We were assigned the Doane Cottage, which was the one overseen by Bill Stone and his wife. With our arrival, he and his wife…
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Pierogi/Grammy Z’s Recipe
We Zdepskis, who identify as Ukrainian, have the curious oddity that our grandmother Eudokia (Gula) Zdepski use many Polish words for food. So we ate Pierogi and Golwumpki and not…
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19. Marriage and Young Family
Marriage and Family I returned to Karluk where I continued with my missionary work until I returned to New Jersey to marry Ruth. I came by plane and then went…
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18. Ditched
The climax of all my experiences in Alaska came on March 17, 1945 while I was visiting Joe Brown. It was about 10 p.m. I was preparing to leave for…
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17. Jack of All Trades
One day I was shopping at the only general store in Karluk. Joe Brown, the store keeper, approached me about caring for the store while he would be in…
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16. Fishing in Karluk
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…
