Desirae Morgan and her cousin Tamara Stern-Morgan spend summers with their grandparents in the nearly abandoned mining town of Red Devil, Alaska. They would like to stay in Red Devil year-round but the school closed in 2009 after enrollment fell below state requirements. Desirae is legally adopted by her grandparents and has to leave them every Fall to attend school in the upriver village of Sleetmute where she lives with her math teacher.
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1st Place in Solo Journalism, 2019 Alaska Press Club
