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The Lancashires: Evolving lives on the evolving Kenai — Part 8
AUTHOR’S NOTE: In late 1948, after six months of homestead living on the central Kenai Peninsula, Rusty Lancashire…
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The Lancashires: Evolving lives on the evolving Kenai—Part 7
AUTHOR’S NOTE: A full decade would pass after the Lancashire family’s arrival on the central Kenai Peninsula before…
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The Lancashires: Evolving lives on the evolving Kenai — Part 6
In the earliest days of the Sterling Highway and the adjoining Kenai Spur, the roads were lifelines between…
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The Lancashires: Evolving lives on the evolving Kenai — Part 5
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Most of the people who came to homestead and stayed long term on the central Kenai…
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The Lancashires: Evolving lives on the evolving Kenai — Part 4
AUTHOR’S NOTE: By the first of August 1948, Larry and Rusty Lancashire and their three daughters (Martha, Lori…
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The Lancashires: Evolving lives on the evolving Kenai — Part 3
AUTHOR’S NOTE: By March 1948, a month before his 30th birthday, Larry Lancashire had already experienced an eventful…
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The Lancashires: Evolving Lives on the Evolving Kenai — Part 2
Author’s note: In 1939, Rusty Tallman, an Illinois woman who had done some modeling and loved parties, married…
![[1a—] After doing business in the Kenai Commercial Company store, Rusty Lancashire climbs into family station wagon, with its sagging back bumper, to head for home. (1954 photo by Bob and Ira Spring for Better Homes & Garden magazine)](https://www.homernews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2023/08/33670611_web1_HOM_082423_lancashire-part1-tease_1.jpg?w=300)
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The Lancashires: Evolving lives on the evolving Kenai — Part 1
In the summer of 1948, while Soldotna homesteader Howard Lee was helping Ridgeway homesteader Larry Lancashire build a…
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Homer Community Cemetery: Difficulties in filling a public need (Part 2)
AUTHOR’S NOTE: After many years of making do with an absence of an official local burial ground, some…
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Homer Community Cemetery: Difficulties in filling a public need (Part 1)
Two important events—one strategic, the other tragic—occurred in the Homer area on Sept. 21, 1928. Although they happened…
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Windy Wagner: Breath of fresh air or just a blowhard? (Part 3)
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The last third of Charles Wagner’s memorable life involved occasional run-ins with the law and, later,…