• 16.  Fishing in Karluk

    16. Fishing in Karluk

                We were in Karluk only a couple of weeks when Jacob Laktonen, the lay priest of the Russian Orthodox Church and an elder fisherman came to our cabin and…

  • The Dutchman Hotel

    The Dutchman Hotel

    When Pop (Harry) Zdepski was sent to the TB Sanitorium in 1934, the eldest child John quit high school and got a job building two identical brooder houses for Kenyon…

  • 15. Alaska!

    15. Alaska!

                In August of 1942 I graduated from Moody Bible Institute.  I had decided that the place for me in the Lord’s work would be in Alaska.  I knew that…

  • When you are the product

    When you are the product

    I came across this when shredding papers. We all get the emails from the Nigerian Prince, but one Mr Olivier Denis did me the courtesy of sending me a long…

  • Pierogi for One

    Pierogi for One

    I had lots of occasion to sit and visit with Mom Zdepski.  I heard lots of stories about New York and life on the farm, exhausting most of my recollections…

  • 14.  Moody Years

    14. Moody Years

                In 1938, John LaRue and I left New Jersey in John’s Model A Ford Sedan for the trip to Chicago.  This was before the Pennsylvania Turnpike was built.  The…

Joel Zdepski

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