STEPPING INTO THE BUS for the first time is a powerful experience. That’s not because I’m on a spiritual journey, or feeling the aura left by a man who slowly starved to death inside it. Yes, I’d read ...
A recent opinion essay offered wide-ranging criticism of the University of Alaska Museum of the North for creating an exhibit for Bus 142 — made famous by Christopher McCandless and John Krakauer’s ...
Fairbanks Transit System Bus 142 arrives at the Troth Yeddha' campus Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at the Engineering, Learning and Innovation Facility's high bay structural testing lab. (UAF photo by JR ...
What's the most famous vehicle you can see in America? Is it the first Mustang Convertible that you'll find on display at the Henry Ford Museum, or perhaps it's the stacks of rusting Americana that ...
On a chilly October morning at a storage facility in central Fairbanks, Museum of the North curator Angela Linn pulled a giant tarp off of Bus 142 — a rust-covered green-and-white city bus from the ...
On Sunday a full-page article appeared in the News-Miner, reporting on the latest arrangements for the University of Alaska Fairbanks Museum of the North to fully prepare old Bus 142 for display. I ...