Alaska

WTF-DVD-AK - ALASKA Filmed and produced by Fran & Brooke Reidelberger Scripted and narrated by Fran Reidelberger In southeast Alaska, the towns and places visited include: Ketchikan, Petersburg, Sitka, Juneau, Haines, Skagway, Glacier Bay National Park, Chilkat RIver Eagle Preserve, Misty Fjords National Monument and a fly-in fishing camp.Features include:-- Scenes of Ketchikan, the Gateway City, with its "red light" district, plus totem carving and historic Totem Bight - -- a fly-in to a luxury fishing camp where record breaking Silver Salmon abound and brown bears are seen on nature walks - "Big Blue Canoes", the state-run ferry system that is the real highway for most people who live in the southeast Alaska - -- The Norwegian heritage of Petersburg and its commerical shrimp fishing industry - -- Sitka, rich in Russian history, religion and dancing, along with the annual Luumberjack Contest and lumbering in the Tongass National Forest - -- the state capital of Jueau, with its gold mining history, cruise ships and salmon bakes, modern merchants and torist momentos, plus Mendenhall Glacier - -- a flight over the Juneau Ice Field and glacier calvig at Glacier Bay National Park - -- Chikat Indian dancers in Haines, historical Ft. Seward and thousands of eagles along the Chilkat river - -- Skagway's modern "gold rush" of tourists who flock to the shops and to ride the spectacular White Pass and Yukon Railway - In Alaska's Interior, towns and places visited include: Tok, Fairbanks, Prudhoe Bay, Valdez and Prince William Sound, Nome, Kotzebue, the Pribilof Islands, Seward, Homes, Anchorage, Kenai Peninsula, Matanuska Valley, and Denali National Park.Features include:-- Historical photos and information about the contruction of the Alcan (Alaska-Canada) Highway - -- Tok, the first Alaskan town reached on the Alcan - -- paddle wheel river boats and modern gold mining in Fairbanks - -- driving the "haul road" along the oil pipeline with stops at the mighty Yukon River and the Arctic Circle - -- oil story from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez and Prince William Sound - -- the Kenai Peninsula -- a variety of wildlife and wildflowers, all within minutes of downtown Anchorage - -- 4th of july in Seward, world-class halibut in Homer and giant vegetables in Palmer - -- huskies and dog sleds in Nome - -- Blanket tosses and Eskimo art in Kotzebue - -- rare birds and fur seals in the Pribilof Islands - -- a look ast modern Anchorage, Alaska's largest city and air crossroads of world travel - -- Denali National Park with incomparable Mt. McKinley, pluse moose, caribou, giant grizzly bears and tiny wildflowers.