There’s no place like home

I grew up in a little town called Sitka, Alaska and some very cool footage of my village has turned up in a Cargill advertisement (of all places).

Check the video out here.

I worked a lot of years in the fish house shown briefly (I was too seasick to go out in the boats…but my brother crewed one of the trollers.)

The place that looks sort of like a cafe (with all the pictures on the wall) is actually the Pioneer Bar, one of the best places in the world to drink after a big halibut season.

(The P-Bar was briefly world-famous a couple of decades ago when a live rattlesnake crawled mysteriously out of the bathroom and got a write-up in the Associated Press.)

More true tales? Back in 1974, a guy named Porky Bickar dumped a load of old truck tires in the dormant volcano shown in the video and set them on fire.

Images of the smoking mountain were printed in newspapers around the globe.

More about Sitka? Check out some cool surfing video here.