The local Pastor and the church he serves were great hosts. Harvey Fiskeau (pronounced fisk-o) has served Nome for 12 years and was in another Alaska community for at least 5 years prior to that. He has/is investing in the community! They opened their home to us and we felt very warmly welcomed.
Harvey and his church are very active in the community and provide a year round soup kitchen on Friday nights. We had a chance to experience that. Harvey knows the folks by name and cares for them.
We had a chance to look around in Nome Friday night and Saturday - and to do some local shopping for the folks back home. Some cool stuff. Nome does the tourist trap thing pretty well. By this time we had traveled far enough west and north with no time change that we were not seeing the sun till about 12:30 and then it was gone by 4 or 4:30 pm. It never made it too high into the sky.
Nica and I stayed with a great lady named named Mina. She was a great host. Her husband had been an adventurous evangelist in Alaska - often on dogsled. And there was a local Christian Radio Station there, KICY, with signal aimed at Russia and a native Russian gal there to provide Russian language programing.
Nome still does some gold mining on a large scale. This picture is of one of the teeth they use on a large chain to dig with.
Nome was part of the gold rush and folks can still pan for gold with minimal success right on the beach facing south into Norton Sound. When we got there the Sound was frozen over (not very smooth) for as far as the eye could see. The next day the wind had shifted and there was open water close to shore as the ice pack had been blown around.
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