August 17, 2023 - Alaska
Anchorage Museum
My favorite place in the museum was a special exhibit called "Alaska from Above" featuring the aerial photography of Alaska by Bradford Washburn during the 1930s.
Washburn (1911-2007) was an American mountaineer, cartographer, photographer, and student of Alaska's mountains and glaciers. He also pioneered aerial photography, which is the only way to really see Alaska.
Here are just a few of his pictures.
Denali towers above the other, lesser peaks.
A painting of Mount Denali. It was probably named Mount McKinley at the time of painting.
The museum even had a kids area which was a big hit with Parker and Zoey.
Up on the third floor was a special exhibit called "To Hear the Earth Before the End of the World". It reminded me of a special exhibit in an art museum in Wichita, Kansas called "Raven and the Box of Daylight". Both exhibits are "Way Out There".
First you walk through this room of hanging feathers.
Then you sit in this room and watch the patterns on the screen that conform to sounds. OK!
Lake Hood has about 200 operations daily. In comparison, Essex Skypark probably averages about 3 daily. We watched two planes takeoff in the short time we were here. In the winter, they use skiis to take off the lake. There is also a gravel strip for planes with landing gear.
