Elmo, Alaska - The comedy/drama MEN IN TREES/ABC/2006+ featured the small northwest town of Elmo Alaska.

Patrick O'Bachelorton adjusts town sign

The roster of citizens in Elmo, Alaska included: 

• Anne Heche as Marin First, a New York City relationship coach and best-selling author who traveled to Alaska for a speaking engagement. Unfortunately, along the way, she finds pictures of her fiancé with an other woman. Shattered at his infidelity, Marin seeks out the seclusion of Elmo, Alaska to mend her wounds. To her delight, she finds that town of Elmo is overstocked with eligible handsome bachelors and so she buys a cabin by a lake and settles in to do some soul searching and write her next book and in her spare time hosts a local radio program.
• Emily Bergl as Annie O'Donnell, a devoted fan of Marin's literary works who followed Marin to Elmo. She became Patrick's fiancée but when a lightning bolt hits Patrick in the head, he got amnesia and failed to remember his love for Annie.
• Seanna Kofoed as Jane Burns, Marin's editor who falls in love with Sam, the "Plow Guy" (Ty Olsson), a snow plow driver.
• James Tupper as Jack Slattery, a local fish and game biologist who falls in love with Marin
• Abraham Benrubi as Ben Thomasson, the owner of The Chieftain, the town bar. He coaches the Huskies, the local hockey team
• Suleka Mathew as Sara Jackson, an ex-prostitute, single mother and waitress at the Chieftain. She is Ben's former girlfriend.
• Sarah Strange as Theresa Thomasson, Ben's wife and backup singer for the popular singer Jewel, another Alaskan native.
  Lauren Tom as Mai Washington, Buzz's talkative, Asian-American wife. She has a side business of selling items from unclaimed luggage.
• Timothy Webber as Jerome Robinsky, a once famous musical composer and regular at The Chieftain
• Justine Bateman as Lynn Barstow, Jack's pregnant ex-girlfriend. She left Elmo when she learned Jack did not love her.
• Scott Elrod as Cash, a handsome nomadic handyman who agrees to fix up Marin's cabin by a lake in exchange for room and board. He is attracted to Marin. Cash later learns he needs a kidney transplant. Marin offered to give him one of hers. In the end, Cash receives a kidney donation from a gay hairstylist.
• Nicholas Lea as Eric, the town minister who is dating Sara.
• Cynthia Stevenson as widowed Police Chief Celia Bachelor
• Currie Graham as Police supervisor Richard Ellis, Celia's romantic interest.
• Derek Richardson as Celia's son Patrick O'Bachelorton who runs the town inn. He is an avid fan of Marin's work and shares hosting duties with her on a local radio program.
• John Amos as Buzz Washington, an African American pilot who owns one of the only planes that flies people in and out of Elmo. Buzz is Patrick's biological father.

A gathering of the prominent citizens of Elmo, Alaska

External Links

• Men in Trees (IMDb)

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