50th Anniversary of the Alaska Wilderness League

While performing a service project for the Northern Alaska Envir. Center in Fairbanks in July of 2015, we were asked to represent Indiana in Washington DC, at the 50th Anniversary of the Alaska Wilderness League. We were given an all expense paid trip and as we flew to DC we wondered what we had to offer, we found we were as prepared as anyone there with our walk in Alaska. The best part of that trip came at the opening luncheon when a tall young man came up to me and said, " Bill, I can't believe you and Penny are here. My name is James, I'm from Arctic Village, I'm one of the children who followed you around." He went on and on about the impact we made on the children during our five Summers in Arctic Village. Over the next five days we spent so much time hearing about how James grew up and his plans for college. We have much to share about this five days in Washington DC, but our time with James is why we were there.