Welcome to Barnes' Den!

"So," you ask, "How did a bear like you wind up becoming such a great artist, pioneer, and sourdough?" I'll admit, my name prepared me for it---I'm named for E.T. Barnette, the card sharp, miner, and bank robber, who founded Fairbanks, Alaska. If you'd like to know more about him, order a copy of Crooked Past, a history of Fairbanks written by our own Prof. Terrence Cole. But as for the rest, well---I didn't do it on my own, that's for sure. Here's a few of the folk who make it all possible:

First off, I've gotta thank the PageSpinner program. Anyone with half-a-brain and a hankerin' for honey can make the finest pages they need with this great (and way cheap) web-page creator. It's not really WYSIWYG---it's better than that. And it's so cool, it's got it's own web page, where you can get more info, find out about all the awards it's won (and that's lots), and download your own copy.

Then, a li'l program called Mapper let me make the imagemaps. The author keeps promising a final version, but this so-called "beta" works as well as anything, and it's $5 shareware! The author is some Scandinavian teenager, and he's got a web site too.

Also, this page would've been a heck of a lot harder to make without my personal candidate for best Macintosh shareware---heck, best Mac software!---ever, CopyPaste. It's a little extension which gives you ten clipboards for cut-and-pasting, making it infinitely easy to transport big chunks of data between pages in discrete little packets, or just keep a particular set of tags on your clipboard for easy access, while you fiddle with other things. And---you guessed it---it has a web site too. Really, download it, pay for it, use it---anyone with a Mac should have this program.

Big thanks are due to the folks at the University of Alaska Historical Archive for letting me prowl through their photo collection to gather the stunningly beautiful and historically more-or-less accurate images with which I have graced your eyes.

And of course, there'd be no image of me at all without the quilt made by Northern Studies graduate Phyllis Movius as a gift for program director Judith Kleinfeld. Dr. Kleinfeld just loves my face too much to take me into the program office, so the quilt now hangs here in Barnes' den. And finally, let me remind you that this page is

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. There's this guy called Daniel who helped me with some of the typing and other things requiring opposable thumbs. And though I think he's overdoing it by trying to take credit for creating the whole site, you might as well send him a little e-mail, just to humour him. Don't worry, he'll pass along your compliments to me.