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Albany
1 Crossgates Mall Rd
Average Rating: 3.5 out of 5 (52 Reviews)
Review by R R.
I was pleasantly surprised by the happy hour specials. It was almost Tapas sized, except perhaps too large. We stopped in for drinks before dinner and…
Rating: 4
Review by Mary M.
We held a baby shower here over the weekend.
It was lovely! Everyone had a great time. The service was terrific, the room was well laid out, the food was…
Rating: 5
Review by Kristy E.
I used to really like it here. The steaks were always cooked as asked and the meat was of good quality. I also really liked the seafood boulibase. It’s a…
Rating: 1
Fishcamp: Life on an Alaskan Shore
“Summers, I live at fishcamp. June through August, Mondays and Fridays, my partner and I catch and sell salmon that pass our beach on their way to spawning streams. The rest of the week, and parts of May and September, Ken and I mend nets, comb the rocky shoreline for useful poles and cottonwood bark, do a thousand camp chores and projects. We live quite happily in a tiny cabin at the top of the beach.” -from Fishcam.
For the past eighteen summers, Nancy Lord and her partner Ken have made a living, and made a life, fishing for salmon off the west side of Cook Inlet on the southern coast of Alaska. In Fishcamp, Lord provides a nuanced and engrossing portrait of their days and months in camp at the inlet.
Beginning with their arrival by plane on a freshly thawed lake, she describes their joys and tribulations as spring gives way to summer and the long months of summer unfold. With poetic cadence and magical tone, Lord draws the reader into life at camp, sharing experiences that range from the mundane to the sublime: the mending of nets; the muscle-wrenching labor of the catch; the exquisite pleasure of an improvised hot-tub; the often unnoticed bounty of the inlet’s flora and fauna. Interwoven throughout the descriptions of quotidian adventure are threads of the deeper history of the region-stories and legends of the native Dena’ina; anecdotes about past and current inlet residents; discussions of the lives of their neighbors, both human and animal, who, like them, live with fish.
Fishcamp is Nancy Lord’s eloquent paean to the place she calls home. In clear and richly textured prose, she captures the simple beauty of a life lived with nature, “a part” rather than “apart.” As Lord explains, she shows us in Fishcamp “something about what even one place and its infinitely varied life contributes to the connections among us all and to the wholes we call ‘world’ and ‘culture.’…Wherever our places are and whatever we do in them, perhaps we might all
Price: $ 1.99
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