“Trails Across time is a marvelous bio-regional history that describes a place, establishes it in time, and sets indelibly in memory the people who lived and worked there and called it their own, in other words, history at its best.” ~Stephen W. Haycox, Ph.D., Professor of History, University of Alaska
“Those interested in the history of the exploration and development of the Kenai Peninsula will find this book a useful resource and anyone traveling the roads and trails described here will welcome Trails Across Time as a fascinating companion on their journey.” ~Mark Weber, Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center
“It is one of the best accounts of Kenai-Cook Inlet history that I’ve seen.” ~Pat Williams at age 95, Seward, Alaska
Kaylene Johnson-Sullivan’s work is inspired by the scale of Alaska’s landscape and the unique personalities that thrive there. She says it is a place of dichotomies — expansive light in summer, deep dark in winter; where vast landscapes fill one’s view while tiny tundra flowers bloom at your feet. Alaska, she says, is a place where an artist can feel rooted in what is real and true and at the same time feel free to create in expansive and challenging ways.
Kaylene has been known to: completely forget about time when hanging around horses.
Things she likes: reading to her husband before bedtime; hiking; horseback riding; cross-country skiing; the scents of rain, freshly cut grass, and saddles.
She’ll never get caught: Jumping out of an airplane. Deep sea diving. Forget it.
Favorite pop culture expression and where it’s from: Pop Culture? Seriously, who are the Kardashians?
Alaskans she most admires: Dick Griffith, Mardy Murrie, Ray Bane (stay tuned)
Favorite Alaska places: Brooks Range, Chugach Mountains, my backyard
Communities like Hope and Sunrise formed their own vigilante committees to dispense justice. Miners meetings were held to determine property ownership, settle claim disputes, and deal with crime. Theft was punishable by hanging. Entire communities showed up at miners meetings to act as judge and jury of the accused.
