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August 09, 2007
Dillingham, Alaska
I am here twice a year. Once the salmon capital of the world (fish farms hurt it), Dillingham, in southwest Alaska, is still a stop-over for sports fishermen, wildlife lovers, bear studiers, bush pilots, extreme camper-hikers, "square pegs" and fed-up husbands (or wives) in the lower forty-eight who went out one day for a pack of Marlboros and never came back. A point of endings and beginnings, it is also the entrance to a remote, roadless and eerily beautiful part of the world. The town itself (pop. 2,500) is on Nushagak Bay, an inlet of Bristol Bay, in the Bering Sea. Dillingham was named in 1904 after U.S. Senator Paul Dillingham, who had toured Alaska extensively as part of his committee work in Congress.
Posted by JD Hull at August 9, 2007 04:08 PM
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I love it "... fed-up husbands in the lower forty-eight who went out one day for a pack of Marlboros and never came back"
I don't smoke but I shall keep Dillingham up my sleeve....
Posted by: Geoff Sharp at August 11, 2007 02:07 AM