FATHOM GRAPHICS - Key Persons
Tamar Frankel's Living in Different Cultures, is a memoir-like collection of keen observations of global culture. Vignettes by the Israeli-born distinguished legal scholar, now 93, guide those from different cultures on how to respect each other and live in harmony.
Alaska Cruise 1909 was written by Bertha Adele Penny following her cruise to Alaska. Constance reprinted her work along with photographs of locations she visited and related newspaper articles.
Connie Taylor formed Fathom Publishing Company in 1981 to publish books about Cordova, Alaska. Our first books were Cordova Fire Chief Dewey Whetsell's And the Fire's Not Green and Rose Arvidson's Cordova The First 75 Years. Next followed a coloring book by Cordova artist Mike Anderson, Coloring Alaska's Cordova. Nancy Ross and Mike Anderson collaborated on Cordova's Historic Buildings which included pen and ink drawings of old Cordova buildings and their history.
Howard John "Mike" Hunt, (1922-2019) was an Alaskan pioneer who came to Alaska in 1949 to establish a new airline - Air Transport Associates. Hunt and his family homesteaded forty acres in Anchorage.
Hunt's love of flying took him all around the world. He was a ferry pilot in World War II with the Army Air Corps, flying every type of plane the army had in its inventory including the B-17 "Memphis Belle." Hunt was invited and attended the 2018 Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Ceremony celebrating the restoration of the Memphis Belle. He was the last known surviving pilot to have flown the Belle on a ten-day bond drive from Spokane, Washington to Tampa, Florida at the end of World War II.
Airplanes, especially warbirds, were his passion. He helped finance the restoration of three warbirds and eventually donated them to the Alaska Wing of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF). These warbirds are hangered in Anchorage and are flown at airshows around Alaska.
Job Titles:
- Author of North of Familiar