title: Alaska Pioneer Interiors: An Annotated Photographic File (Alaska Historical Commission Studies in History)
author:  Jane G. Haigh 
description: It's a book to linger over, especially with a good magnifying glass. -- <i>Ann Chandonnet, Anchorage Times</i><br /><br />The effect is riveting- sometimes like making a visit to old friends, occaisionally like playing a voyeurism. -- <i>Jean Anderson, Fairbanks Daily News Miner</i>
zlib_text: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ![image](../../cover.jpeg)
  
  
  **RAISED IN RUINS**
  
  
  **A Memoir**
  
  
  TARA NEILSON
  
  
  ![Image](../images/pub.png)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Text and images © 2020 by Tara Neilson
  
  
  Cover photograph by Romi Neilson; photograph on [page
  263](26_threeunion.xhtml#page_263) courtesy of Kizamu Tsutakawa; photograph on
  [page 269](26_threeunion.xhtml#page_269) courtesy of Ove Korsnes.
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in
  any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying,
  recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written
  permission of the publisher.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Names: Neilson, Tara, author.
  
  
  Title: Raised in ruins: a memoir / Tara Neilson.
  
  
  Description: Berkeley, CA: West Margin Press, [2020] | Summary: “A personal
  memoir of Tara Neilson’s unconventional childhood growing up in the burnt
  remains of an old cannery in remote Southeast Alaska”—Provided by publish