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Getting to know: Eva Carter
Carter was ‘Crusty enough to live on the tundra’
Eva Carter spent eight years living and working in Alaska.
Tracee Beebe

Not many folks can say they lived in Alaska, and even fewer can say they did lived there as a woman alone for eight years. But that is exactly what Llano local, Eva Carter did from 1988 to 1996. Carter went up to visit her brother in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the Christmas holidays and realized she could make a lot more money than she could ever hope to in Texas. “I went up there with a single suitcase for a short visit that turned into an eight-year stay,” remembers Carter. Finding a job wasn ...

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