Janet Richardson
Janet is from the coast of Georgia and graduated from the University of Georgia as a pharmacist. She began working as a clinical pharmacist for the Indian Health Service in Alaska in 1989, first in Sitka, Alaska then Kotzebue, Alaska and finally Fairbanks. After retiring, she finally had time to do something she's always been fascinated with, cemeteries and history. Researching the folks in the cemetery brings to light many amazing and some tragic stories of the first people to the area.
The commission has done several history walks thru the cemetery, “Stories beyond the headstone” and will do more next summer, there are endless stories to tell.
Episode 108 - Clay Street Cemetery in Fairbanks, Alaska
Dianne and Jennie are joined by special guest Janet Richardson from Fairbanks, Alaska who shares stories of those buried in Fairbanks's first cemetery and shares many of the details of the years of restoration and preservation that has kept this …