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In addition to various musings on the concept of "place based" education, this blog provides a handful of photographs taken over the last 90 years from the margin of America's most accessible glacier - the Mendenhall. This glacier landscape - in Juneau Alaska's own backyard - has changed dramatically.

I invite you to come on in and be a witness to change.

Look closely at the two photos below. Can you match up the distinct bump in each of the photos on the ridge on the right? Once you key in on that "bump," you become a witness to change! Not only has the glacier receded nearly 1.5 miles since 1924, but it has also thinned dramatically!

Mendenhall Glacier 1920s

Mendenhall Glacier 1920s
Alaska State Library Historical Collection - ASL-Glacier-MendenhallGlacier-59

Mendenhall Glacier June 2010

Mendenhall Glacier June 2010
US Forest Service Photo - Mendenhall Glacier Photo Gallery

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Now You See It. Now You Don't!




Here are two more photos that illustrate change over time. The photo on the top is from a photo collection at the University of Washington (Coll 247) taken during the 1930s at a point along the Trail of Time about ½ miles south of the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center. The photo on the right, taken by me in 2007, duplicates this photo angle. Jim Geraghty, noted Juneau Historian, stands at approximately the same location as the figure in the center of the historic photo.

Change? Oh yes, this place has changed over time!
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