The Knik bar of Knik, Alaska has relied on Iditarod tourists for big business every year around race time. Traditionally, the course passes right by the bar. But the new trail map doesn’t include the little town of Knik. Bruce Gellerman talks with Darlene Donnelly, the bar’s owner.
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