Judy San's "rustic Victorian" home is a three-story, Tyvek-clad, work-in-progress that she started work on nine winters ago.

Given its size and complexity, you might not guess that the bulk of the house was built by one person. You almost certainly wouldn’t guess that person, for a good chunk of it, had only a chainsaw, a screw gun, and a set of batteries she charged at the public library.

Reporter Will Steinfeld took a break from hard news this week to write about of a 75-year-old Chilkat Valley resident making a home for herself.

— Rashah McChesney, Editor