For more than eighty years, the territorial schoolhouse building has stood in Downtown Talkeetna, Alaska.  Built to be essentially identical to other federally funded schools throughout Alaska in the territorial days, it has served many purposes over the decades beyond hosting classes.  It has been a residence, a community gathering place, and, today, a museum to Talkeetna’s past.  On this episode of the Blue Tarp, we hear from people who learned, lived, and labored inside one of Talkeetna’s most historic buildings.

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