When Jesse’s “school bus” (a Ford Model A) arrived on the shores of Knik, it got stuck in the mud, so a team of horses had to rescue it.
People used to spend days and even weeks travelling to and from Alaska, and commuting on a day to day basis from the Matanuska Valley to Anchorage would have been inconceivable. Those were the days when the hardship of transportation was not the rush of commuter traffic making its way to and from Anchorage, or the inconvenience of a delayed flight. After Jesse moved his family from Anchorage to the railroad town of Matanuska, he spent approximately three years driving the first school bus in the Matanuska Valley. They moved from Illinois in 1925, and spent time living in Anchorage when it was still a tent city when the parkstrip was the main airport instead of the long expanse of grass, tennis courts, and softball fields it is today.
Jesse “Kep” Kepler and his wife, Harriet, lived through a lot of firsts and new beginnings during the pioneering and colony days in the Matanuska Valley.
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