What is a miracle? When there is something Man cannot do, but does....that difference is a miracle. The miracle this Blog will discuss is the Serum Run in Alaska in 1925. NOME "Nome lies just two degrees south of the Arctic Circle , ... it was still the largest town in the northern half of Alaska in 1925 with 455 Alaska Native and 975 settlers of European descent... the port on the southern shore of the Seward Peninsula of the Bering Sea was icebound and inaccessible by steamship , Winter supplies were sent by train from the icefree port of Seward to Nenana , and then was transported the 674 miles (1,085 km) from Nenana to Nome by dog sled , which normally took 25 days." THE EPIDEMIC Nome only had one doctor, a Dr. Welch. In 1918, half the Native Americans around Nome had been wiped out by the Great Influenza epidemic of 1918. Now, Native American children ...