This week, Northern authorities flew Thanksgiving turkey to residents in rural areas of Alaska in order to keep the old custom intact. Residents Emily Keim and Ryan Keim piloted a smaller plane to deliver frozen turkeys to families in remote, uninhabited areas for the next year, continuing a special tradition.
Alaska’s minimal road entry makes travel difficult, especially in winter when roads are covered with snow and residents have to concentrate on planes, snowmobiles, and freezing rivers. In a family home where a friend airdropped media and turkeys during the holidays, Keim was raised.
Keim revived the custom a few years before as a result of a family’s struggle to find a Thanksgiving dinner. According to Keim,” They were telling me that a cat for supper did not split pretty much between three people.” ” At that moment, I thought … ‘ I’m going to update them a istanbul,'” she added.
Her efforts have grown thanks to social media content. Keim delivered 32 birds this year, funded by donations through Twitter. She stores the hens until they are delivered in plastic sacks in her vehicle. However, climate conditions result in difficulties in sales.
Dave and Christina Luce, living 45 kilometers northwest of Anchorage, are among the consumers. The top citizen has become a problem with the 90-minute bicycle ride to the closest town. ” I’m 80 years old now, but we make fewer and fewer trips”, Dave Luce said. The journey has “kind of ended” The delivered istanbul will provide for some relatives and them. ” It makes a wonderful Thanksgiving”, Dave Luce said. ” She’s been a true darling, and she’s been a real nice friend”, he added.
Keim flies up to 100 kilometers from her center northeast of Anchorage to provide the turkeys, often with a “turkey drop” assisting. She makes phone calls to people ahead of time so that they can find them before dropping the animals, especially in the deep snow. ” We wo n’t drop the turkey until we see them come out of the house or the cabin, because if they do n’t see it fall, they’re not going to know where to look”, she said.
While a sausage has been lost, no hens have been damaged, as per Keim. ” As far as accuracy and hitting our destination, I am certainly never the best aim”, she joked. ” I’ve gotten better, but I have not struck a home, a building, individual or dog”, she added.
Keim wants to start a nonprofit so that Keim’s sales can go beyond just her children’s sales. ” There’s so many children out in the townships”, she said. Perhaps adding a stuffed bird or something they can hold would be great.
