Mushers’ family, friends and fans began calling Peace on Earth weeks ago to place pizza orders. Many asked for special messages to be written on the boxes.
Bret Hanson puts Canadian bacon on a pizza in the kitchen at Peace on Earth, the restaurant in Unalakleet he owns with his wife, Davida. The couple was busy baking pizzas for mushers in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday, March 10, 2024. Encouraging messages from all over the globe come with each pizza that the Peace on Earth restaurant delivers to this Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race checkpoint, about three-quarters of the way into the 1,000-mile race.
“You get moms and dads, you know, ordering their kids pizzas,” Davida said. “And so you get, ‘Love, from Mom and Dad. Oh, and can you put a heart on there?’”Davida Hanson holds her grandson, Christopher, while looking over pizza orders with her daughter-in-law, Joann, at Peace on Earth, the family’s restaurant.
“It’s just important,” Bret said. “It’s important to the people that made the orders, and it’s important to the mushers, because I’ve seen it in their eyes, to have something special and a little message from whoever is sending it.”Bret remembers the first time he saw a musher’s eyes light up when they got a pizza and a message from afar.
Musher Matt Hall hits a frozen bag of meat with the back of his axe to break it apart at the Unalakleet checkpoint.
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