ABOUT UNGA (through a 4th grader's eyes)

OUR TOWN

I am writing this story to tell you about our town of Unga. There are about 200 people in Unga. There are 5 bicycles in our town.  We do not have any cars. There is a gold mine near Unga. It is the old Apollo Mine. We can walk from Unga to Squaw Harbor. It is about 7 miles to go by boat. Unga is on the Pacific Ocean. When we look out of our school window we can see a point called "Elephant Head". It looks like pictures of elephants. We have a library in Unga. There are two stores and one post office. We had a dock but a storm came and the waves knocked it down. There is a round dance hall in Unga. All houses are built of lumber. The schoolhouse is on a hill. Sometimes it is hard to get to school when the wind blows. The people burn wood and coal in their stoves. We wear the same kind of clothes you do. We order our clothes from the catalog. We have no doctor or hospital. There is a doctor at the cannery in Squaw Harbor in the summertime. A traveling dentist came to Unga this fall. The people of Unga fish codfish and salmon in the summer. Many people work in the cannery. The men go trapping in the winter. Unga is an old town.

(This article was written by Fourth Grader Evelyn Whittaker, in response to questions from Stateside students, and was printed in Unga Newsletter, dated November 1, 1938. Unga Newsletter was published annually for three years by the students of the Primary Room. Ed.)