DONNELLSON — The Donnellson Public Library will celebrate the 106th birthday of a Lee County man who went to live alone in the hostile Alaskan wilderness and became an icon of that state. The public ...
In 1968, Richard Proenneke — a 52-year-old Iowan who’d fallen in love with the Alaska outback — headed to a remote spot in the southwestern part of the state to test himself. Using simple handheld ...