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    The Moonlit Mloose
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    Who knew that a moonlit moose in Denali Park, Alaska, would someday result in Bethany Page receiving an invitation from the President of the United States in 2005 to be the first artist featured in the new wing of the National Art Gallery in Washington, D.C.? And what did she do, she panicked and did what most of us would do, she called her eight-five year old parents. “They want a history of how I became a painter,” she told them and their response, “ It’s about time you got that story of a thirteen year old ranger’s daughter’s first summer in Mt. McKinley Park, down. That was forty-seven years ago and as your parents can testify, your memory doesn’t get any better with age. As you write, send us the chapters and we’ll help anyway we can.” And thus began the story of the summer that changed everything.So what is it that turns a summer into the pivotal point of your life? In Beth Page’s case it was a crusty diminutive retired logger with decided views on the sanctity of national parks, and the lone year round resident of the ghost town of Kantishna who had been waiting 52 years for her husband to return from a prospecting trip .The year is 1958 and the setting is Mt. McKinley National Park, a park seldom visited and therefore the perfect setting for Beth’s father who seeks the solace of remote wilderness areas as balm for the psychological wounds of WWII. When they arrive in the park in May, Beth is angry and appositional about yet another move to a remote location. Her father, thrust into a single parent role while his wife takes care of her sick mother, swings between too lenient and too strict. As Beth said, “The pot is on the boil.”Hank Jovanovich, the retired logger, spends the summers in the park as an unpaid helper, living in an old storage shack behind the ranger station at Wonder Lake. While Beth initially thinks him bossy and too opinionated, she finds herself spending time with
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