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Parks Highway 0 with Bearfoot SUMMER
Talkeetna is a great place to spend a warm Alaskan summer day.
From Local Museums To Restaurants When the summer days get long, take time to park your car, and explore Talkeetna on foot. Go flight- seeing or rafting, then come back to town and enjoy a rela xing evening in the Town Square Park. There's a summer market outside the Sheldon Hangar, and events are posted on local corkboards all over town.
TALKEETNA
Moose On Parade & Friday Concerts Talkeetna artists decorate wooden moose sculp- tures with local themes every summer. If you 're in- terested in art, you 'll want to check out local shops and the Sheldon Community Arts Hangar, home to the Second Saturday Art Show. There's also plenty of music and theater in this small community. Look for posters around town all summer long. Every Fri- day, there's a "Live At 5" music concert in the park in the center oftown.
HISTORY
Talkeetna's volunteer heritage.
Talkeetna's residents are very active, and there are far more things happening year-round here than you might think possible, considering the relatively small population. Locals work at the library and help out at the radio station, play mu- sic and are in theater productions.
One hundred years ago Talkeetna was a very different place culturally, yet very similar in ap- pearance. Thanks to volunteer and community efforts, many of the same cabins and structures built back then still stand today.
Some of the oldest institutions in town are the Fairview Inn, Nagley's General Store, and the Tal- keetna Roadhouse. These establishments are all on the National Register of Historic Places, and bring a consistency and familiarity to the look of Beautiful Downtown Talkeetna. The miners, trappers and railroad workers of a century ago would still recognize and enjoy Talkeetna today.
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