The Winter of ’79 is the true story of one particular winter season that spanned the gap from 1979 to 1980 with a lot of nasty weather in between. We know about it because Kate, alone on a mountain top with no phone and no one over the age of one to talk to, wrote letters to her mamasan in Hawaii. Her mom kept the letters. Kate also penned a journal. Between the two written sources and more than one hundred original photographs, a person can get a pretty good feel for what an Alaskan winter in an isolated and remote setting can be like.
On top of their remote mountain, Kate and baby Atwood are holding down the fort and keeping the home fires burning, while Tim is commuting to a job in Kenai. His daily trips through woods on an antique snow-machine are inherently dangerous, and he is battling constant sickness. With luck, he will make it home each night.
Suddenly, living in a winter wilderness is not as fun as they had imagined it would be. Will this winter of ’79 be the deal breaker to their Jack London and Ralph Waldo Emerson-inspired Transcendental hybrid odyssey?
Table of Content
Contents
Chapter 1 – Early Summer, 1979 page 1
You Only Own What You Can Protect
Mr. Waterfall 3
Two Different Visions of Heaven 9
Squatters 13
Grass Fire 15
Ann Ely Comes to Play 19
Moving on Up 31
The Black Rug 37
Mr. Waterfall’s Curtain Call 47
Chapter 2 – Late Summer, 1979 page 53
A Dream
Garden of Delights (Au Naturel) 55
A Little Black Cloud 63
New Neighbors 69
Chapter 3 – Fall, 1979 page 79
Winter Begins
Tim Takes a Job 81
Turning a Blind Eye to Winter 93
United We Stand 115
Baby’s First Christmas 123
page 139 Chapter 4 – Winter, 1980
Cabin Fever
Flaming Chicken on Tim Peak 141
Home is Where the Hearth Is 149
Red Plastic Ambulance 163
Time for a Tonsillectomy 175
Feverish Reports 187
Garden of Delights (By Bosch) 197
Garden of Delights (By Dali) 203
Chapter 5 – Spring, 1980 page 205
Nature Is Queen
Great Ball of Fire! 207
April in March 211
Thin Ice 217
Nature Is Queen 219
Sign of the Elephant 221
Spring Break 227
Chapter 6 – Summer, 1980 page 243
Two Good Days
One Good Day 245
Rain! Rain! Rain!
A Garden Party of Delights 251
About the Author page 273
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