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Building a foundation. Gathering wood. Overcoming limits.
It’s all about building a dream, and Fran Kelso tells how in Alaskan Attitudes, her personal memoir about living alone on the Alaskan homestead.
Kelso had always wanted to build a home and live on Spruce Island, Alaska. But when it’s time to start building, her husband announces he wants a separation. Facing the end of her marriage and possibly the end of her dream, she decides to go on with the help of friends and moves forward with her plan—alone.
Taking a leap of faith is harder than Kelso imagined, however. She moves into a home with only a three-burner Coleman stove for cooking, and no electricity, phone, or running water. A boat serves as her primary means of transportation.
Her time alone teaches her persistence, determination, and a willingness to do the hard work required. Most importantly, she learns to believe in herself.
In the hopes of setting a road map for others to follow in her footsteps, Kelso shares how she achieved her dream in this inspirational guidebook that demonstrates how having the right attitude can get you through life.
Alaskan Attitudes, by Fran Kelso- Amazon Sales Rank: #3058864 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .56" w x 6.00" l, .74 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 246 pages
About the Author
Born in 1938 in Connecticut, Fran Kelso moved to Colorado in 1947. She discovered Alaska while playing the five-string banjo and bass, and singing with a music group. Determined to fulfill her dream of living on Spruce Island, even after her marriage fell apart, she shares the grand adventure that led her there in her third book, Alaskan Attitudes.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A Warm, Wonderful, Honest Book About Life On A Remote Alaskan Island By Timothy L. Smith I love this finely-crafted, lovingly-written tribute to the people, places, and attitudes of my home town, Ouzinkie, Alaska. Full disclosure: I've known Fran since 1971, and she sent me a copy to review. I immediately bought one to send to my brother. I was so pleased to read her description of my late parents, Norman and Joyce Smith, both of whom died in the village in their eighties. In addition, beloved people like Jenny, Lily, Greg, and the Monks and Nuns of St. Herman come to life in the pages of this gentle, moving, and often humorous book. Spruce Island, Alaska, her home for many years, provided many challenging life lessons, all of which Fran shares with a warm and unassuming tone that will attract many readers. Completely devoid of any of the hype and artificiality of many of the "bush" TV shows about Alaska, this book still manages to describe the difficulties and challenges of living completely off the grid on a remote Alaskan island. And Fran Kelso concentrates not so much on her struggles as on the people she came to know and love. Fran completely understands the concept of being a friend and neighbor. She also has amazingly wise insights into Alaskan village life. Having spent all my school years from Kindergarten through college with Ouzinkie as my home town, I lived in the same environment as Fran describes. Some have experienced village life and gone on to satirize and belittle it; Fran Kelso celebrates it. I predict that this lovely book will go down as a classic in rural Alaskan literature. The book features lovely drawings and photos which help to draw the reader into her topic. Very highly recommended!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. this book embraced me like a gentle incoming tide of all things possible By Kim Heacox Heartfelt, lyrical and quietly profound - even inspiring, this book embraced me like a gentle incoming tide of all things possible. Nicely done, Fran Kelso.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. We have easily revived our kinship through the internet By Joyce Herold Recently, Fran Kelso, the author of Alaskan Attitudes, found me still in Colorado fifty years after our close friendship there. We have easily revived our kinship through the internet. Fran sprang her latest book on me and asked for my thoughts about it. Read and cogitated over, the book has brought me many enjoyable hours and new insights into where the author has been and who she is. I gladly respond.I recommend Alaskan Attitudes to both the questors who crave an elemental, challenging existence for themselves (preferably in a forest, on a bay!) and the city and town folk who want a field guide to what it’s really like, living up there in Alaska.This book is essentially a straight forward narrative written in direct words and measured cadences. Scattered throughout are descriptions and musings about places, people and happenings that make the reading anything but dull. Spruce Island quietly gets under your skin and you enter a small North Country world. You begin to actually live with Fran and learn how she coped and thrived, with help from various like-souls of Alaska.A land claim was the start and the making of a cabin next. Fran lays out in detail the building components and process - site, design, tools and equipment, nails, lumber, roofing and human know-how, patience and sheer strength. The same meticulous cataloging of how everything went includes mistakes, modifications and, sometimes, perfection. Fran and friends do it all with equanimity.Fran’s “running water” was earned by running out to the creek and hauling water by bucket loads. But she never leaves a tale as a pure “pioneer-woman” bit: she writes, too, of the joys of modern convenience when her water eventually arrived by pump and pipes. That said, it still was the wilderness so hot water was always a hard-won luxury. The search for dry beach wood and its sawing, splitting and stacking were never-ending. Fran seemed to be tiring of it yet she recovered to exultation over a chain saw powered by a never-fail generator, brought up the hill with near disaster. She caught, canned and smoked abundant fish but let others endure the patience needed for hunting. She gathered a whole lexicon of food plants and knew how to cook them and sprinkle them on salads. (That she found avocado, too, is beyond belief…)Perhaps surprising to some go-it-yourself readers is another core of the book, the constant presence, assistance and companionship of other human beings – her son, visitors, neighbors, delivery men, students, a pair of Russian Orthodox monks and more. As an ethnologist (retired from a natural history museum), I particularly admire Fran’s insightful, sensitive approach to the Alutiiq Native Americans in the nearby village of Ouzinkie. Their reserved acceptance of an outsider subtly unfolds throughout the book. Fran had the mind, training and empathy - as well as a banjo and songs from her earlier entertainer’s life - to charm everybody (almost). She clearly depended on the villagers for help, sometimes in the form of “pagooked” necessities. (Read the book and look it up!) In return she committed to giving back and did so, very well, as a teacher and musician.To end my comments in an unexpected way: Hidden in Alaskan Attitudes I found some quite lyrical passages that are almost haiku-like in the author’s plain “Quaker” style. A favorite of mine is the following, which I lay out here as free verse with a few words removed:When it gets down to basics, we needa roof over our heads, food and water.In Alaska, a reliable heat sourceand layers of warm clothing.I had a cabin built near to a creek on an island.I had a good wood stove and a forest of potential firewood.Now I just had to have groceries.So…now go and read.Addendum: Lacking are maps of Spruce Island, to clarify the personal geography of daily life, and of the Kodiak area, to trace trips by boat and seaplane. Also, since Fran missed mentioning books and reading as escape midst isolation, whence the worldly quotes that begin each chapter?
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