[Kathy in Alaska]

Very cool! I like it.

And a wonderful St Patrick's Day to you!

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Mar 17, 2007 9:15 am US/Eastern

Alaska Town Giving Away Free Land

(AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska Anderson, a little town in Alaska's interior, has no gas station, no grocery store and no traffic lights, but it does have plenty of woodsy land � and it's free to anyone willing to put down roots in the often-frozen ground.

In a modern twist on the homesteading movement that populated the Plains in the 1800s, the community of 300 people is offering 26 large lots on spruce-covered land in a part of Alaska that has spectacular views of the Northern lights and Mount McKinley, North America's highest peak.

And what's an occasional day of 60-below cold in a town removed from big-city ills?

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