Polish Magazine Features Picture-Story on Palmer
If none of his work had ever
returned to Palmer, people of
this community would still re
c all Ted Bronstein, whoso
strong personality left a num
ber of dents on local egos.
The individualistic man-with
a-camera roamed the town and
the valley for a week or two
during the summer of 1961, ex
pending countless rolls of film
as he strove to record the pop
ulace as they went about their
work and play — “exactly as
you are. Forget I’m here.”
Since few are impervious to
the sound of exploding flash
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bulbs, this was difficult to do
—all the more credit to the art
istry of Bronstein, now that
the results of his work have
been seen.
The latest of the picture
stories created by Bronstein
from that two-weeks’ stay ap
peared in this month’s issue of
the U. S. Information Agency’s
America Illustrated, a Polish
language magazine about Ame
rica.
Entitled “Palmer, Frontier
Town in Alaska,” the story
opens with a double - page
spread of an aerial view of the
town and the valley, looking
south and east toward the Mat
anuska River, the Knik Gla
cier, and the Chugach Moun
tains.
Superimposed down the
right side of the page are shots
of a Matanuska Maid, Inc. em
ployee packaging milk, Kitty
Johnson in her “sandwich
shop,” Virginia Gallant, Ger
ald McNally and Theron Comp
ton putting the Fourth of July
edition of The Frontiersman
“to bed," and “an agronomist
advising a farmer on crop prob
lems.”
Other pictures show a work
er and farmer at the Experi
ment Station farm, a group of
small boy contestants in a race
at the Moose Club picnic, a
supermarket (Koslosky’s pro
duce department, with a small
girl in the foreground solemn
ly weighing onions), the Bob
Fritz-Jan Loyer wedding, a
farmer baling hay, and small
alane traffic (The caption
reads, “In a valley where sur
face transportation is minimal,
Hi-School
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By LINDA SHELTON
Friday, Nov. 22, Palmer plays
Kenai in Palmer. It would be
wise to buy your season tick
ets before this game. Having
season tickets will save you
money throughout the season.
The holders of season tickets
do not have to wait in line at
the cashier’s desk. It also
helps the team to operate fi
nancially the early part of the
season.
Last Friday’s game between
the faculty and students was a
project sponsored by the Let
termen’s Club to raise funds
for that organization. It was an
extra and not included in those
covered in the season ticket.
The adult season tickets apply
to all regularly scheduled
home games in high school
competition.
Following this Kenai game
Friday, will be a dance held at
the high school. The proceeds
will go toward buying jackets
for the lettermen.
Back-To-School-Night was
held last Tuesday night at
7:30. The junior class, with
the largest percentage of par
ents attending, will receive
the proceeds from a movie to
be held at a later date.
The Elks Club is sponsoring
a youth leadership contest,
Material for this annual con
test has been given to the
high school for students inter
ested in entering. The contest
is based upon leadership, citi
zenship, integrity, sportsman
ship, general character and
reputation. The deadline for
this contest is Dec. 16. 1963
Students of all four grades in
high school are eligible to en
ter.
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] many farmers pilot small i
planes for business and an oc
casional look at the ‘Outside’.”
The dozen pictures chosen
by the Seattle photographer to
illustrate his stories s e e m to ,
tell the story of the present
day Matanuska Valley, even
though t h e Polish-language
captions are not intelligible to
the American reader.
Included with the compli- i
mentary edition of the maga
zine, however, are complete ■
translations of the story and
captions. “Spread flat in a
northeast corner of Alaska’s
fertile Matanuska Valley are
the prospering homes, farms,
offices and stores of a town
named Palmer,” the story says.
“It is a remote village, strung
on the barest filaments of road
and track to other towns and
the market city of Anchorage
fifty miles away. Palmer’s
breathing space is small; great
patches of forest rim the plow
ed clearings, and the struggle
for pasture and cropland is
hard. But Palmer has mana
ged to impose on this enduring
frontier a life as modern as
can be found in most American
rural towns.”
The article describes the
founding of the colony in 1935.
“Many settlers returned to the
mainland during the first five
years . . . those who stayed
drew sustenance from the land
if the Matanuska. Through a
prolonged struggle for subsis
enance and the solicitude of a
emote federal government,
hey created a strong market
igriculture in the valley which
tave their town a future
ense.”
“The startling thing about
’aimer’s comfortable, modern
vay of life,” the story con
dudes, “is the suddenness with
vhich it was achieved. In less
han thirty years Palmer has
;rown from isolated settle
nent to thriving town — re
peating the pattern of rapid,
( vigorous growth on the older
western frontier.”
I The original assignment
which brought Bronstein to
Palmer was a contract with the
International Harvester publi
i cation to do a picture story on
i Shorty Kircher, local black
smith who has lived in the
Matanuska Valley since 1932.
Copies of the farm machin
cry magazine found their way
j back to Palmer during the win- j
ter of 1962, with photography
'and a story about the little
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documentary. Shorty's story
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