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Heather Lehe
A native of Michigan, Heather Cooper Lehe, drove to Alaska with a friend after graduating from nursing school in 1978. She instantly fell in love with the Last Frontier. She has worked as a nurse i...view moreA native of Michigan, Heather Cooper Lehe, drove to Alaska with a friend after graduating from nursing school in 1978. She instantly fell in love with the Last Frontier. She has worked as a nurse in Anchorage, Bethel, Nome, and the Matanuska Valley, where she and her husband, Tom, have been raising four adventurous children for the past twenty-five years. She loves to travel, garden, hike, camp, fish, sing in a women’s choir, dance, and explore the wonders of this great land.After celebrating Colony Days in Palmer every year, passing quaint little colony houses dotting the Matanuska Valley, and studying its history, she realized a unique story was waiting to be told--from the children's perspective. A few colony kids (with amazing memories) still live in the area and have been eager to share their adventures of that first year in a new land.view less