Growing Up Alaskan recounts, with love, humor and poignancy, what it was like to grow up in the remote community of Auke Bay, Alaska, during the 1950s. The story starts when the author's parents, Bill and Velma Stilley, children of the Depression, one a runaway and the other an orphan, find each other and, together with their growing family, climb the bootstrap, armed only with fierce determination, an infinite capacity for hard work, and a belief...