What's a pithouse?  The sort of semi-subterranean home common in the ancient arctic and sub-arctic.

The one at right is a picture from Robert Park's excavations on southern Baffin Island, at the Davidson site. Click the image to visit his web-page.

Welcome to ours!

Nick & Meghan Corduan's Pithouse.

The genesis of this website lies in the desire to keep all our friends and families updated now that we've finally made the big move to Fairbanks, Alaska this summer -- a 3600+ mile jump from central Indiana!

We are, in fact, now in Fairbanks.  Meghan is immersed in her job and loving it, and Nick is equally immersed in his schoolwork and happy to be so even amidst moments of being overwhelmed.

We arrived in Fairbanks in the evening of August the 2nd..

  What's new in our lives!

Not much has changed in the past few weeks, but I'm going to keep up the list of  things from the move over the summer for now, since people are still probably checking all this stuff out.

Here's a quick run-down of some of the highlights of where we're at and what we're up to.  More details for many of these things can be found throughout the website, but here's a bunch of Google maps so you can start to visualize the scope of our lives.

We're now living in Clarkson Apartments, which is actually in the Fairbanks-Northstar Burrough, not in Fairbank proper, but it's pretty seamless.  We didn't even know we weren't in town until a friend mentioned to us that the city limits ended with University Avenue, and we're well outside that border.

Meghan is working in Signer's Hall on the campus of UAF, and Nick will soon be a TA and active student in the anthropology department, headquartered on the same floor of the attached Eielson building.

We're attending church at the Fairbanks Native Bible Church, which is a beautiful log church built by the church folks themselves on a gorgeous river-front, semi-wooded lot.  David Joseph and Pat Huff are pastors of the church, David an InterAct missionary and Pat an ordained native minister.

We do most of our shopping at Wal-Mart or Fred Meyer.  There are  two Freds here in town, one near-ish our apartment (A on the map) and the church and the other in a shopping area (J) up near Wal-Mart and an assortment of other stores.

 The bulk of our entertainment comes from the Noel Wien public library, be it Black Widow Society compilations, comic books, language learning materials, Jeeves and Wooster videos, Cadfael audiobooks, or various reading materials.