Alaska Beat

Deep South homestead, AK-style

This long, odd and compelling story single-handedly threw off Alaska Beat's morning deadlines. According to the Anchorage Press, a former Anchorage-ite (and tenant of the world-famous compound known as "Rancho Spenardo"), Jackie Carr, had to move all the way to rural Alabama to build a homestead. She inherited 29 acres of hilly, kudzu-covered land (including the highest point in Randolph County) which had been in her family since the 1850's, and moved there in 2007 to try living more simply. Carr keeps a bunch of chickens, six goats, and more than a few cats, the chickens being mostly strays that she collected after they got loose from transfers at industrial poultry farms. Read much more about one Alaskan adjusting to life in the rural South, here.

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