The Ranch House

  The Ranch House is the main building where everyone else is. The Kennedy Family lives in their own section of the Ranch House. There are 6 Ranch Hands who live in the back end of the house. 

  There is a main kitchen area where the cooking is done, and everyone gathers to eat, and visit. Off of the kitchen area there is a pantry, a small bathroom, and a porch/cold storage area for storing food. 

  Down the hall there is an office, a workshop area, and the entrance to the Kennedy's portion of the house. 

  There is a common area with couches, chairs, a TV, movies, video games, and a wood stove. Everyone hangs out here, or in the kitchen. 

  Everyone has a laptop here, so usually when people aren't working they are on their laptops. 

  In the Ranch House everything must be shared, and people need to get along, as the 15 of us are the only people out here at Ft. Glenn. Everyone does get along, and it makes me think how Reality TV shows are so dramatized and made up. I have lived in a "work camp" situation a few times in my life, and I have to say that everyone usually makes the effort to get along and keep the peace. If people don't quite see eye to eye, usually everyone keeps it to themselves, as best they can.  

  We have met some very good people out here. It is a very different way of life, to live in such seclusion. 

  The only other inhabitants of Umnak Island, are some of the natives, at a small village on the other side of the island, called Nikolski. The village of Nikolski is very old, and apparently is the oldest and longest continuously inhabited village in North America.