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June 19, 2007

Odd Alaska town thinks maybe now its time has come

  • Whittier's unofficial biography was entitled “The Strangest Town in Alaska.” But the mayor says now he'd call Whittier “Alaska's Newest Backyard Playground.”
    • By JEANNETTE J. LEE
    Associated Press Writer

    WHITTIER, Alaska — When the town's lone museum opened two years ago, no one knew how long it would last. After all, Whittier, with a population the size of a large wedding reception, had gone without a movie theater since 1986. The library had closed in 1993.

    Today, the one-room museum on the first floor of a converted military communications building is the cultural centerpiece of this once-isolated former Army garrison. To Whittier's 180 residents it's yet another sign that growth, so long in coming, is on the horizon.


     
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