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The Lancashire family shares a meal in their original homestead cabin. (1954 photo by Bob and Ira Spring for Better Homes & Garden magazine)

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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…

Vanilla pound cake, fruits and pretzels are prepped for a fondue celebration. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Celebrating grandpa with fond memories and fondue

Sweet and dense vanilla pound cake is perfect for this dish

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Conservation Corner

Soil Testing: Why the Fall?

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Rusty Lancashire backs up the family tractor so her husband Larry can connect it to the disc for their fields. (1954 photo by Bob and Ira Spring for Better Homes & Garden magazine)

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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…

Slow spaghetti sauce and turkey meatballs are loaded with enough cheese and herbs to change your mind about ground turkey. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Slow and savory

Spaghetti sauce and meatballs fill a quiet afternoon

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Larry and Rusty Lancashire (at left) pose in front of a B-24 bomber in the early 1940s with another unidentified couple. Larry was a B-24 co-pilot during World War II. (Photo courtesy of the Lancashire Family Collection)

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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…

These cheesy crackers are easy to make at home and come without the dyes or preservatives of a store-bought brand. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Never too old for cheesy crackers

This week I said goodbye to his babyhood and took him to his first day of preschool

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[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)

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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…

Honeyberry pie is made with freshly picked fruit from local orchard. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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The spoils of summer

Honeyberry pie is made with freshly picked fruit from local orchard

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