A handheld gateway to Alaska history
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Following the direction of a Northern Flying Squirrel who happens to be a secret agent, fifth-grader Kajson Cunningham counted double-headed eagle crests on Peter the Great's cape.
Peter the Great didn't seem to mind. After all, he passed away almost 300 years ago. He displayed the cape proudly in a portrait at the Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff State Library, Archives and Museum.
"Five," Kajson said.
"Six," his companion Aiden Pietan said.
"Do all these count?" Kajson's older brother Keelan Cunningham said, pointing to the cape.
The Cunningham children and Pietan, a group of homeschool students aided by the Cunningham's mother Amber, were trying to answer a question posed by a new U.S.