A Frog's Tale

<p><span style=font-family: Arial Helvetica sans-serif; color: #ff6a00;><span style=font-size: 12px; background-color: #e3f3ff;><strong>Raney “Budd” Wright—an Army brat—couldn’t help but be annoyed when at age ten he found out his family would be moving again. Then his dad told him where they were going: Alaska. Right away his attitude changed—this move was going to be an adventure!</strong></span></span></p><p><span style=font-family: Arial Helvetica sans-serif; color: #ff6a00;><span style=font-size: 12px; background-color: #e3f3ff;><strong><br /></strong></span></span></p><p><span style=font-family: Arial Helvetica sans-serif; color: #ff6a00;><span style=font-size: 12px; background-color: #e3f3ff;><strong>Wright looks back at what it was like growing up in a tight-knit military family in Alaska on the eve of statehood. The family moved in September 1956 settling in Douglas before moving to Juneau. He was immediately impressed by the family’s creepy old house which had great views of the Gastineau Channel and a gold mine. With his dad and brothers John and Richard he enjoyed hunting small game fishing hiking camping and sometimes simply exploring the woods.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style=font-family: Arial Helvetica sans-serif; color: #ff6a00;><span style=font-size: 12px; background-color: #e3f3ff;><strong><br /></strong></span></span></p><p><span style=font-family: Arial Helvetica sans-serif; color: #ff6a00;><span style=font-size: 12px; background-color: #e3f3ff;><strong>He also became blood brothers with an Indian which resulted with Wright in being welcomed as a member of the Tlingit Nation Auk (Sitka) Clan and the Frog Clan House. Get ready to be inspired by beautiful landscapes boyhood adventures and memories of a way of life that no longer exists (but should) in A Frog’s Tale.</strong></span></span></p>