An annual celebration that bridges the agricultural roots of Palmer with modern-day enterprise kicks off this weekend in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
Colony Days is a three-day event that transforms downtown Palmer to feature vendors, games, contests, and activities all while celebrating the original colonists that made the town into what it is today.
“With any sort of history, I feel like especially in Alaska because we’re a young state, there’s some gaps,” Vann said. “We can’t find documents on what the themes were and stuff like that — so it’s a little fuzzy. But I’m sure there’s people around that if they want to come tell us what it was in 1982 or 1979, we would love that.”
“The colony families — we’re up to fourth and fifth generation now because, you know, that was 87 years ago when they came,” said Barbara Thomas, a second-generation colony kid and docent coordinator for the Colony House Museum. “My parents were original colonists from Wisconsin. So they came up in 1935 and the colony farm that they had — and that I grew up on — is now the Musk Ox Farm here in Palmer.
After the colonists made it through the first winter, they held a celebration in 1936 to commemorate their survival.
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