Anchorage Alaska Bed and Breakfast
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This is a place where you can relax and refresh yourself from the rigors of business life in comfort and simple luxury. In this place, by accepting the gifts of care and service, you will thus be honoring your hosts. – Such is the legacy that has been handed down to them. Then… when you’re ready, and you’ve taken in all the rest and sustenance you require, you can venture out and experience this great land, ‘the land of the midnight sun’…Alaska.
• Just several minutes from all of Anchorage (a little less if you travel by snowmobile and a little more if you take
the cross country ski trails)…
• And only seventeen minutes from the International Airport (sixteen if you jump off while the sled dogs are still
running).
• Also you are just a block from the ocean with a view (in winter time) of the Turnagain Arm of the Cook Inlet
(with tides of over thirty feet).
If you wish to believe the parts about sled dogs and snowmobiles then Alaskans will be happy to regale you with tales of ice worms and snow snakes, igloos and polar bears. If you ask them they’ll even tell you about fur trout and moose holders. Just be ready for a real treat when they hand you an oosik (piece of ivory) and a poem to read called ‘Ode to the Oosik’. That alone will be enough to enthrall you with the lengths these Alaskans will go to delight themselves at your expense. (The part about the tides are true)
On a more sincere note, your hosts would like to extend to you a little glimpse of this ‘legacy that has been handed down to them’… just so you’ll know the heart in which they serve you. This home, The Stahl House, was inspired by the late Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Kenneth Dale Stahl. He was both the father of the master and husband of the owner of this humble dwelling. Here are just two examples to endear you to this wonderful servant of God who died of cancer over 25 years ago, and to his former home… Alaska.
When he retired from the Air Force at Elmendorf Air Force Base Alaska (here next to Anchorage), his troops gave him an engraved bronze gold pan. The inscription looked like this… On the top were two silver leaves, the insignia for Lieutenant Colonel, and it read like this:
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To Kenneth D. Stahl
Who In Only 20 Years Excelled To The Rank Of Lieutenant Colonel
But To Those In His Command Excelled To The Highest Rank As A Gentleman And Friend.
…five star General.
GOLD FEVER/REMEDY
A refrain from Robert Service’s Spell Of The Yukon drifts now across my mind: “Some say God was tired when he made it, and some say it’s a fine land to shun. Maybe, but there’s some as would trade it for no land on earth, and I’m one.” Obviously, I’m also one, and I have difficulty just trying to say how I feel about even one little corner of this land called Alaska - but, let me try.
My mind takes me from my temporary hospital bed to a certain little stream flowing through its picturesque little valley -- hurrying through a deep, rock-sided gorge here, meandering at a lackadaisical pace through the wide meadow there, and then hurrying on again to greet the great tide.
This particular stream, like many of her sisters, reveals to the man who asks her searchingly, the man who really digs her, those tiny little flakes and nuggets for which other men, perhaps not so patient and gentle as I, those who have scrabbled, mucked and even died because of Gold Fever. But happily the latter is not the case in my little valley, brought to life by my little stream. No! I go to her, not to rape and rob her of the wealth she possesses, but to find the remedies for much of life’s fevers which would beset me. I go to her not alone, but with my dear little family and perhaps a friend. Much of our time there is spent communicating our thoughts which could not, or would not, be uttered elsewhere. Her soft music provides the just-right background for a peaceful kind of seeking, finding, sharing. She laughs with us as we gather around the old pan or the sluice box to marvel and rejoice when particles of her golden trove are freely given up, rewarding us for spending our pent-up energies probing into her restless, frothing waters or scratching at her sides.
KENNETH DALE STAHL
Lt Col. (Retired)
25 January 1975
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This home is placed close to the southern edge of Anchorage… and if you were to inquire of the Alaskans living outside of this modern sprawling metropolis, they would boastfully tell you, “The only good thing about Anchorage… is its close proximity to Alaska. Thus, in this place, you will find yourself:
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Your Hosts: David & Terry Stahl
Email: TheStahlHouse@Alaska.net
Telephone: 907-336-7841
Anchorage Alaska Bed and Breakfast – The Stahl House B & B Executive Inn & Suites
13470 Arne Erickson Circle • Anchorage, Alaska 99515
So, you see, there’s no fever when one is with her, but truly a remedy from the fevers set upon us by the world in which we live. As she calls my thoughts to her, my present fever subsides, I am determined to leave my bed behind to go to her again and again with my family and friends, knowing I’ll come away just a little healthier and perhaps wealthier, determined to share these treasures with those who don’t know my little stream and her remedies to the world’s fevers.
