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Stories about building a life in the Alaskan wilderness
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8 APR 2018 · Out Here tells the stories of people who've dared to live life differently. Focused on the end-of-the-road community of McCarthy, Alaska, and the surrounding area, it explores off-the-grid living, raising children in the wilderness, bucking the 9-to-5 and living off the land.
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8 APR 2018 · McCarthy, Alaska, sits at the end of a 60-mile dirt road in the heart of the country's largest national park. Hear what drew people here, from panning for gold to searching for simplicity.
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8 APR 2018 · The turn of a faucet, the flip of the switch, the drive to the grocery store: things we take for granted. But what's it like to build it all from scratch?
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8 APR 2018 · Alarm clocks, traffic, 9-to-5 desk jobs: Meet people who've thrown all that out the window and trudged down their own dirt road.
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8 APR 2018 · The solitude scares many, but the intimacy might be more intimidating. Living through a winter with another person in a tiny cabin is no small feat. And what about raising kids?Â
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8 APR 2018 · In the middle of the country's largest national park, people live with animals large and small, and they also live with the weather. In a place like McCarthy, the outside creeps in. Because you depend on the resources around you to survive and because you can't even go to the bathroom without venturing outside.
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8 APR 2018 · People come and go. Others stay for years. There's no government beyond the state. And there's all different ideas of what the community really is or what it should be. Yet, somehow, it works.
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8 APR 2018 · What's progress like in a place surrounded by preservation, a place who's golden age is 100 years past? Technology, access, tourism: they've all brought change to McCarthy. Is there such thing as the good old days? If you could hold back the tide, would you?
Stories about building a life in the Alaskan wilderness
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| Author | Erin McKinstry |
| Organization | Erin McKinstry |
| Categories | Society & Culture |
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