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The Cabin: Then and Now

"I couldn't put your book down, but read it from start to finish! I liked the flashbacks between Alaska and Kansas. The contrast was fascinating." — Rolland Winter, Denver, CO

"Even though you had access to your parents' letters, you did an amazing recall of how life was in Alaska 40-some years ago. You have an outstanding ability to use colorful and picturesque words, and you made almost everything appear as though it was present-day." — Wilmer A. Harms, M.D., Newton, KS

"After a rough day, I push aside the day's events, and lose myself in your easy-to-read, heart-warming stories. Your book is good therapy!" — Marilyn Simpson, Psychotherapist

"You have a wonderful story and I love the way you write. I felt like I had shared your Alaskan experience with you. I hope you keep writing!" — Mary Ellen Watson, Denver, CO

"While at the airport in Moldova, waiting for the plane, I was intently reading about your life in the Cold House and missed the boarding call. I noticed my plane taking off without me!" — Anonymous Man, Central Asia

"We come to Alaska for different reasons — job, love, adventure, a new start — because we're born here. We stay because we find what we're looking for — adventure, love, work, joy — in short, home. "Home" as a concept is intangible. It's a sense of fitting in, a feeling rather than a structure of wood and shingles. The Gaede family had many structures they called a home, but it took the hard work and sweat equity of the homestead, the finding of their place in the family, the town, and the world, before they found home...Belonging is the theme of Naomi Gaede-Penner's second book in her Prescription for Adventure series...It takes a look at the Alaska adventures of the Gaede clan from the point of view of Ruby Gaede, Mrs. Bush Pilot, and the kids: Naomi, Ruth, Mishal, and Mark." — newsminer.com

"It sounds like a memoir, but it's less self-indulgent than that. More historical nonfiction than anything else, From Kansas Wheat Fields to Alaska Tundra expands beyond the scope of the Gaede family, incorporating local history and the stories of other homesteading families into its narrative." — Review in Peninsula Clarion