"In the late 1950s there was no school teacher for the most remote region in Alaska-- until Anna Bortel Church. In this captivating interview with former pupil Naomi Gaede-Penner, Anna Bortel Church recounts her story of traveling to Alaska and becoming the first permanent school teacher for the Nunamiut Eskimo village of Anaktuvuk Pass... Listen as she recounts her story of pioneer teaching in Alaska, starting in 1954 when she drove up the Alcan Highway from Ohio to Valdez. Three years later, she pushed north to Tanana, along the Yukon River and in the middle of Interior Alaska. Here she met the Gaede family and had Naomi and Ruth Gaede as students. See the drafty Quonset huts with freezing oil lines that added to her teaching challenges. Discouraged? Yes. Daunted? No. She couldn't resist accompanying Doc Gaede on a medical field trip to the most remote of all Native groups -- the Nunamiut Eskimo village of Anaktuvuk Pass, [which needed really needed a teacher despite] 'No school building, only a tent or sod house available for teacherage, no roads to transport building supplies, no wood for fuel except willows, no airline service, no public services besides post office. Severe winters... they persuaded Anna Bortel, who had been head teacher at Tanana School, to teach them in their church'... Catch a glimpse of her Arctic world with smiling students, and the sod house she called home."--Website