Forget-Me-Nots

In 1972, Dave Bouker had just been hired to run the tiny Dillingham Electric Cooperative when the group decided to go into the phone business.

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Dennis Maloney was a young man in law school and working for Alaska’s Senator Mike Gravel as his lead staffer on communications, when Congress was deciding how to divide up the sky.

The competition came down to RCA and Comsat.

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In the early 60’s Diane Carpenter and her family’s homestead on the Kuskokwim became a village. She did everything from running the trading post and post office at Stony River to maintaining the power system – a job that was 24-7.

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Dr. Dan O’Connell was in rural Alaska in time to help clean up after the T.B epidemic in the 60’s … now he worries about the rise of diabetes. He says people were more fit when they had less conveniences.

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In 1970 Hellen Nienhueser was an Anchorage housewife who’d lead girl scout camps when she decided to lead a fight for Senator John Rader’s bill liberalizing Alaska’s abortion laws.

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In 1962 Diane Carpenter who had started the village of Stony River at the site of her family’s homestead on the Kuskokwim was attending a conference in Fairbanks when she heard about a plan by a Japanese company to cut the timber along the river.

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