A confluence of accident and opportunism led to the founding of Fairbanks when businessman E.T. Barnette‘s steamship ran aground in the Chena River in 1901. It seems a natural progression then that over 100 years later—following gold and oil booms and busts, and statehood in 1959—Alaska’s second largest city remains a place of hyper-local, entrepreneurial free enterprise. Here, chance meets necessity and life is inextricably …
Word of Mouth: Fairbanks