Author: atwoodcutting

The setting is deep in a field of wildflowers, far from any city. It is during the Alaska oil boom, and two anachronistic romantics have heeded the call of the wild, and journeyed to meet their life’s adventure in the far north. Kate, the poet, has come from Hawaii to Alaska, ‘to see a winter.’ Inspired by the pervading idealism of the sixties, she dreams of establishing a harmonious world. Tim, … Tim, a soldier returning from Vietnam, simply wants to build a log home and live life the way he wishes, like Jeremiah Johnson. They meet in Fairbanks, elope,…