Bob Deck left Haines in 1976 and didn’t come back until 2004. The town looked the same, but things were different.
“Now there are a lot of empty buildings and there are a lot of people not doing anything, a lot of retirees. Back then, everybody worked.”
Deck, 66, is spending his second summer as host at Chilkoot Lake state campground. He enjoys meeting campers and invites them to use his lakeside campsite where a…
