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Alaskana: 'Just' a homesteader DAVE EBERHARDT Our homestead was pretty much a subsistence lifestyle. ... Mom kept records in the '50s, and the budget was about $200 a month, with most of the expense being gasoline and electricity. Interview by RON WENDT (Published: January 28, 2007) My dad first came to Alaska after World War II in 1946 and got a job hauling gravel at Ladd Army Base near Fairbanks. Back in those days, they sluiced all the gravel to recover any gold that might be in it. Dad homesteaded in 1947 where we're at today, at Mile 5.3 Chena Hot Springs Road. He and my mom, Dorothy, got married in 1947. She had worked out on the base as a telephone operator during the war. I was born at St. Joseph's Hospital in Fairbanks on Aug. 16, 1950, and my brother, Wayne, was born in 1951. We didn't have running water out at the homestead until 1956, so we hauled water from Steele Creek. Back then, everyone had 55-gallon galvanized steel water barrels. My brother and I used to sit on the end of the log while my mom cut spruce poles with the Swede saw for firewood. Our original house was 10 by 14 feet, and it's my dad's kitchen today. We had a lot of bears back then; one tried to get in through the door, and my dad shot it right through the screen. Wayne and I spent half of our childhood picking up sticks in the field and burning them while dad was opening up more land for potatoes and barley. Dad hired Joe Vogler to clear the first fields to get patent to the land. While he worked with Northern Consolidated Air, he farmed with his Cat 15 crawler and an Allis Chalmers wheel tractor. Dad brought an old Quonset hut from the base in the early '50s. He's the only one who was ever able to move the entire concrete floor and Quonset at once. Originally, all our fields on the homestead had been cut over by wood cutters for the Northern Commercial power plant in Fairbanks in the old days, and there are still remnants of an old woodcutters town at the bottom of the hill. The logs were then hauled in big, horse-drawn sleighs. Today I still cut down trees, then run them through my 1920s Bell sawmill. We've built eight log buildings and cut a lot of birch we sell as hardwood. HOMESTEAD LIFE There was a whole group of homesteaders in the area: Carl Lindstrand; my uncles Don, Harold, Carl and Earl Herning. My dad's brother had a homestead. Tilly and Henry Brockman, Paul Krueger, Adolph Scheer, Frank Festler, Funks, Denton -- all had homesteads back then. Our homestead was pretty much a subsistence lifestyle. Every Sunday in the summer we'd go fishing out the Chatanika and then later on up the Chena. We atePDF Image | Chena Hot Springs Road
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