Children have swarmed the streets of Akiachak, Alaska, for games and prizes in the village’s annual carnival marking the start of the school year.
Wilson Noatak, 5, rides along Main Street on his bicycle with friends on Aug. 19, 2023, in Akiachak, Alaska. In mid-August, Akiachak held its annual carnival to mark the start of a new school year.Makeshift carnival booths were framed of wood and covered with a blue tarp to protect workers from the ever-present drizzle falling in the community on the west bank of the Kuskokwim River, about 400 miles west of Anchorage.
In the winter, the frozen Kuskokwim River becomes an ice road, serving as a motorway to other nearby villages and Bethel, a hub community for southwest Alaska about 20 miles southwest of Akiachak.and older kids and adults mostly on four-wheelers navigate the muddy streets or run through the village filled with dogs and few — if any — cats. And even though it was well past the Fourth of July, some boys seemed to have a never-ending supply of fireworks to keep things lively.
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