Letters to the Editor

By Dick Wilson
Published on October 1, 2007
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The Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry has been given
a historic colony barn and is in need of help in preserving a piece
of Alaskan history. This barn was built in 1936, and was part of
the farm colonization project promoted and paid for by the federal
government. People were sent from the Midwest to start farms in the
Matanuska Valley. The property the barn sits on has been sold and

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