Category: My Life & Times
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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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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…
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13. Gardens, Snakes and Skunks
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During our elementary and high school days, we boys had many chores which kept us busy tending the large gardens we had to keep hoed and weeded. We had two…
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12. Stephen and Bees
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Around 1934, a swarm of bees landed in a cherry tree along a fence near the barn. I decided that I would try keeping the bees and so put them…
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11. More Childhood High Jinks
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One of the men I remember in elementary school is Mike Meinsinger. He and his father farmed the farm adjacent to the school. This is one of the farms…
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10. School Days
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I remember my first day of school. It was a one room school taught by one teacher, Miss Ruth Kuglar. [1] Today that school is a home. We walked…
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9. Pop’s Memories of Ukraine
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I think now is the appropriate time to tell some of the things Pop told that happened in the Ukraine when he was growing up. He told us how…
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8. Moving to the Farm
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When I was about two years old, Mom, John and I spent several weeks each summer on a farm near Locktown with Michael Antislko family. We continued this practice…