Nostalgia is sentimentality for the past. That’s what I felt watching my great Aunt Ruth’s van go down the alley behind my house on a tow rope headed for vehicle heaven on a recent Monday afternoon in Haines.
The Haines Borough has implemented a program to get rid of junk vehicles and is hauling them out of people’s yards now.
Back in 1996, my Aunt Ruth, a smart, hard-working and God-fearing nurse, gave me the…

