... and, with an affectionate look back at his New England forebears, Nelson F. Getchell's own wide-ranging and wry memoir follows his professional life as textile scientist and art and antiques dealer. But there's a reason "Fin" gets top billing. (Click on the image to learn why.)

Family After All: Alaska's Jesse Lee Home, Vol. I (Unalaska 1889-1925), tells of the people who established the Home and persevered there, of the neighbors who saw that perseverance as a threat, and of the children, whose well-being--however defined--was everyone's aim.

Family After All: Alaska's Jesse Lee Home, Vol. II (Seward 1925-1965), draws on the writings and reminiscences (and photographs) of former "Jesse Lee kids" and staff members for a frank, often poignant, occasionally comical account of life in remarkable surroundings

Homesteaders in the Headlights: One family's journey from a Depression-era New Jersey farm to a new life in Wasilla, Alaska, by George Harbeson Jr. with an Introduction by legendary Alaskan Katie Hurley, presents the recollections and ruminations, by turns tender and hilarious, of a grateful son and perceptive Alaskan.

.In Umnak: The People Remember, the Aleut elders of the last village on Umnak Island tell stories tragic and joyous of life on the edge of the Bering Sea. We're grateful that the children of Nikolski, population 34, helped collect these tales.

Unga Island Girl [out of print for now] is a daughter's account of the life of Ruth Lauritzen Benson Soberg, from her girlhood on what is now a ghost island through 80+ years in and out of her beloved Alaska.

 In Spanish rhyme with direct English translation,
on 20 colorful pages from the imagination of Seattle artist Laura Healy Engelstad, this librito tells of
el nieto nuevo – the new grandson – and his brave big sister, la valiente hermana mayor.
With mailing envelope.