In 1959, Carol Tuynman was a studious eighth-grader in a suburb of Rochester, N.Y., when her family made a summer trip to Alaska.
Parents Louie and Hazel Nelson and siblings Ardis, Paul and Irene pulled a homemade plywood camper along the winding, bumpy Alcan Highway and around the state, looking for a place to homestead. They all liked Haines.
Tuynman dreamt of becoming a marine biologist, but her creative side already was revealing itself. Steaming…
