Category: Family
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18. Ditched
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The climax of all my experiences in Alaska came on March 17, 1945 while I was visiting Joe Brown. It was about 10 p.m. I was preparing to leave for…
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Pierogis, Tacos, Onions, and Eating with Pirates
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In early June 1977, I took a group of slides of my family at home on Stamets Road in Holland Township, NJ. In this group are pictures of: Gretchen our…
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My Zdepski Christmas Memories
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From my earliest recollections, (our branch of the family tree through my grandparents Michael and Vera Zdepski, and Michael and I as the children of Stephen and Lauren) I knew…
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Linda Learns Something About Grandpop Zdepski That None of Us Knew
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(as told to Mark and verified by Linda.) When we moved to Federal Twist and Strimples Mill Roads in October 1985 our house was covered by a seller’s warrantee for…
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17. Jack of All Trades
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One day I was shopping at the only general store in Karluk. Joe Brown, the store keeper, approached me about caring for the store while he would be in…
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16. Fishing in Karluk
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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…
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The Dutchman Hotel
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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…
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15. Alaska!
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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…
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Pierogi for One
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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…
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