• Talkeetna Alaska Holiday Ornament, Mayor Stubbs, Crystal Glass Ornament Hanging on a Christmas Tree
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Talkeetna Alaska Holiday Ornament - Mayor Stubbs

Talkeetna Alaska Holiday Ornament - Mayor Stubbs

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An orange tomcat sitting on the general-store counter beside a water glass with a straw and a brass bell with a red bow, a snowy mountain in the window. Stubbs, honorary mayor.

Stubbs was elected honorary mayor of Talkeetna in 1997, as the story goes, by write-in, and held the office for twenty years. He slept on the counter of the general store, took his water from a wine glass with catnip in it, and received visitors from around the world who came to meet the mayor. He died in 2017 at twenty, still in office.

Talkeetna is the jumping-off town for Denali and has a reputation for doing things its own way. A cat in charge fit perfectly.

A town that elects a cat has a sense of humor about government that most towns could use. The orange fur and the red bow are the color; the glass of water is his.

Stubbs the cat, Mayor Stubbs, was the Talkeetna cat mayor for twenty years, and visitors came from around the world to meet him. This orange cat ornament is a cat ornament and Alaska ornament, one of the best cat lover gifts and a Talkeetna, Alaska souvenir.

Every Talkeetna ornament ships ready to give. Hang it on the tree, in a window, off a lamp, or send one to the person who misses Talkeetna most.

3-inch faceted crystal glass ornament, white-backed print, line-drawn in 1880s engraving style, your choice of white or gold gift box.


QUICK FACTS — TALKEETNA AK CRYSTAL ORNAMENT — MAYOR STUBBS

Town: Talkeetna, Alaska

Founded: Trading post 1896; townsite 1919

Known for: Staging point for Denali expeditions; the bush pilots who invented glacier landings; the 1917 Roadhouse; a cat for mayor

Art: Mayor Stubbs, original Merlin Classics engraving

Blank: 3-inch (76 mm) round clear crystal glass ornament, faceted gem-cut edge

Print: white-backed for contrast; red ribbon hanger

Packaging: white or gold gift box, chosen at checkout

Made to order in the USA



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Merlin Classics is a small Connecticut brand making original retro designs for the towns people love. Every piece is printed, embroidered or engraved to order in the USA, and the business supports hunger relief in the communities our collections celebrate.

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The railroad made it a town: in 1915 the Alaska Railroad’s builders chose Talkeetna as a district headquarters, and by 1916 there was a post office, a sawmill, and even a cigar shop on the new Main Street. In 1919 the surveyors auctioned eighty lots, and the town that stands today took shape — a downtown of log buildings now listed, in its entirety, on the National Register of Historic Places: the 1917 roadhouse still serving breakfast at communal tables, the 1921 general store, the 1923 frontier inn, and the 1936–37 territorial schoolhouse that houses the town museum. Trains still stop; upriver, the flag-stop line still picks up anyone who waves.

And Talkeetna is the door to the mountain. Denali — 20,310 feet, the highest peak in North America, long mapped as Mount McKinley — fills the northern horizon on a clear day, flanked by Mount Hunter and Mount Foraker. Every climber who attempts Denali registers here, at the ranger station named for Walter Harper — the Alaska Native climber who, on June 7, 1913, became the first person to stand on the summit. In the 1940s and ’50s a Talkeetna bush pilot named Don Sheldon helped pioneer glacier landings, and ski-planes still lift off the village airstrip each spring for the Kahiltna Glacier base camp at 7,200 feet, carrying more than a thousand climbers a season from every continent on earth.

Why People Visit Talkeetna Alaska

Talkeetna offers the three-rivers confluence the Dena'ina have gathered at for centuries, the National Register downtown with the Roadhouse and Nagley's and the Fairview Inn intact and operating, the Walter Harper Ranger Station that every Denali climber walks through, the long view of the highest mountain in North America rising at the head of the Susitna Valley, the Alaska Railroad Denali Star at the depot daily, and the small-plane glacier-landing tradition that opened the mountain to the world. It is a small town at the end of a fourteen-mile spur road, and almost every climber on Denali has stood on its one main street first. Below Denali since 1896.

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