Author: Trella Hemmerly Haldeman Romine

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Trella Hemmerly – 1989-06-30

Friday, June 30, 1989
Lupines, anemone, Bog Rosemary
200 K speed –
9:40 leaving Paxton Lodge.
9:43 views of the other end of Alaska Range. Snow in pockets. Graceful paved road swinging around hills. 9:53 climbing top Arctic tundra 20 kinds wildflowers. View 40 potholes
10:30 turn around 212- view of Galkona Glacier.
10:45 view of pipeline.
10:48 back to Paxton- Glen Allen 744 265
10:52 Paxton Lake
11:16 Far below us vast area forest dotted with lakes. Hogan Hill. mile 213 Pond lilies stop. 11:27
11:41 Poplar Creek miniature drunken Forest. Galkana River dominates this drive.
11:50 crossing Gulkana River. Ahtna Corporation lands- $10 fishing permits available.
Noon view of Wrangell Peaks
12:02 Glen Allen ice cream truck stop
12:15 Glen Allen-Glenn Highway 187 mets anchor junk yards around cabins. Flowers along road. Red flags at sides warn if a frost ridges.
12:40 Tazlina Lake from Tazlina Glacier
12:47 On Pond 2 swans (Tazlina tourist trap lodge.) Tazlina Glacier Caribou Crossing in Chugach mountains- (gas $1.39 a gallon)
1:20 Eureka Summit
1:21 Gunsight Mountain elevation 6,141. Lunch- Sheep Mountain Lodge
2:35 hog pics [illegible]
2:45 View of Matanuska Glacier to north. Twisty road-driving along glacier & morains
2:54 Mile 104 – pix Matanuska Glacier at mile 102. Can drive to glacier face. Mile 94 – 6 min. Stopped – why? Truck lost bulldozer.
3:30 Raining during descent – has been sunny all day until now-
3:30 King Mt.
3:48 rain stopped. Sun out King River. A66 milepost.
4:10 Matanuska Valley & Palmer – A-41 Taking old Glenn Highway at Artic Ave.
4:12 Crossingh of Matan River
4:17 View of Pioneer Peak & Knick Glacier.
4:21 Glenn Highway- vast plains – marsh – Ekutt on flats. Wild Iris fields.
4:467 Crossing Eagle River – Anchorage 13 miles. Traffic lanes full both ways coming in on Rt. 1
5:15 Home
30699-29677 = 1,022 +180 in park – 1202 miles total.
Letter from Willis [Nye?] Nap – pizza.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1989-04-30

Sunday, April 30, 1989
Sunny and 67 I got sunburned. Gorgeous day.
Mowed with big mower until 12:00 when guests started arriving. Running water into renovated pool. nut it’s still leaking. Mary out to oversee register and pass out brochures listing trees, shrubs & wildflowers. Over 200 registered- Madge Guthery here with friend Stafford Marshall from New York City who has just discovered trees. The Seckles visited with Howard.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1989-04-29

Saturday, April 29, 1989
1 inch rain this week.
Region 2 Vermillion. Lucy, Betty Gorsuch, Eleanor Dieffenbach, Mary H, Trella.

Mary and her carload picked me up at 7:30. stopped in Bucyrus for Betty Gorsuch at Great Lakes Historical Museum at 9:25. 62 registered 85 last year felt $20 registration kept some away, but program was great interpreting your artifacts by professionals from George Washington University and Sturbridge Village. ate lunch at Shea Francois and talk to Giant Diane Chestnut about the way meeting was planned- she did much of it. reception at Ted Wakefield home a real treat on a point of Lake Erie and Vermilion river.
Home about 7:00. Tidied the garden some. Had call on answering machine from Ken Hemmerly asking for a reunion mailing list.