Reader Submitted Stories

Woke up at 6:30 am and hit the snooze.  Was finally able to pull myself out of bed at 6:45 and start my morning.  The water to the bathtub isn't running, so I removed the sheetrock from that wall to get the warm air in, and will be buying a small amount of insulation to remedy the problem.  So, took a spit bath.  Toilet flushes, water in sink is running, etc., so all is good.  Not seeing or feeling where the water is frozen to the tub, though.
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In July 1959 the new State of Alaska began road upgrades and paving with some of the new Federal dollars that accompanied the Alaska Statehood Act.  Up to that point the road from Wasilla to Meadow Lakes was a gravel surface. At the current Mile 46 marker, where the Flamingo Car Wash now stands, sat a small building known then as Myer"s Cafe. Read more

Passing back through the time frames that changed Meadow Lakes into the community of some 6100 people that it is today, I reflect again on a time when Pittman road was filled with ruts and pot holes and crossed the railroad tracks above the Holiday on old Pittman.Read more

With my husband out of town, I am left to my own abilities and motivation to keep me going through the cold snap that hit at the beginning of the year, as well as having to bring back the independent, strong woman I used to be.  I was commissioned, with not only handling my own responsibilities, but taking up his, too.

This is the first of a few adventures I journaled during his 3 week absence.Read more

Having seen the new SpUD, (not as in agriculture), I see there's a sunset on yet another chapter in the Meadow Lakes Book of Change...There was a time when Meadow Lakes was, blanketed in waving fields of grain.... like brome, oats, barley and peas for silage, even large potato fields, which was all sold to the the local market - Matanuska Maid. If one lives within a mile of Pittman Road, then likely the land you live on was a homestead or farm, that was 1958, until the last vestages of the agricultural decline in 1966/1967.Read more