It starts in the tiny bar beforehand, where everyone gathers ... Such is the hospitality of small town Alaska. Carol Fowler, a former Contra Costa Times travel editor, is the author of “Great ...

In this small coastal town (pop ... No school, no sitting in bars or coffee shops, no church services. You know the drill. Haines is in southeast Alaska, on a fjord at the top of the Inside ...

but although it was small, it was unforgettable: its historic houses on stilts overlooking the creek, a pine tree skyline behind them, looked exactly like the coastal Alaska I'd seen in movies.