Facing the river a building attached to the bridge in 1913 provided the city with hydroelectric power for 40 years before becoming a water pumping station.
Residents in dozens of western Alaskan communities continue to repair damaged homes and outbuildings and to apply for disaster assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the state government and other organizations.
Brede Olsen has rented the house; an outbuilding it had been, belonging to the storekeeper, but done up now with two sitting-rooms and two bedrooms; none so bad, and in a good situation.
I had to remind myself that, for most of his life, this had been Will's domain – this globe, these wide shores – not the little annexe in the shadow of the castle.
Behind the house there appeared to be a garden, which undoubtedly had once been extensive, but was now infringed upon by other enclosures, or shut in by habitations and outbuildings that stood on another street.