4th of July celebration here in Fairbanks

The boat in the picture is the Nenana, one of the last riverboats that worked on the rivers here in Fairbanks. All of the flags are the 50 state flags and in the middle is the color guard with the US flag. With two large military bases here it was a very patriotic celebration particularly so because Ft. Wainwright has a battalion in Iraq right now. What Grandma has in her hand are arctic strawberries that grow wild along the river bank.

There are a couple of pictures of some kids demonstrating some of the events that will be in the Eskimo Olympics that they will be having here in a couple of weeks. The other pictures are some that I took at the bird refuge here in town.