Gwen Holdmann
22:37 - 23:14
“she came to Alaska, I think, in 1955 with her husband, who was a dentist. They moved out to the Bethel area and then to a little village called Stony River.”
- Speaker
- Gwen Holdmann
- Timestamp
- 22:37 – 23:14
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
And in her case, you know, she came to Alaska, I think, in 1955 with her husband, who was a dentist. They moved out to the Bethel area and then to a little village called Stony River. And she— the way I came across her is that I was doing a lot of research on early the story of early Alaska rural village electrification. I was really interested in this. I'm an engineer by training, but I really believe that we need to preserve our history and like how, you know, people have faced these sorts of challenges and making sure that we're not kind of losing that, you know?
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