On the morning of September 18th, 1915, a tremendous explosion took place in Prince William Sound. The explosion originated at the Granite Mine in Hobo Bay. A ton and a half of dynamite was deemed to have been set off by a disgruntled employee who had been fired the day before. Despite the massive explosion […]
The Iditarod Nation lost a great storyteller on Tuesday, October 5, 2021. Hobo Jim Varsos succumbed to cancer in Nashville Tennessee. Jim started his life journey in Indiana in 1952. He was raised in Madison Wisconsin, and began playing the guitar when he was 12 years old. In the mid nineteen sixties, Jim decided to […]
