AUTHOR’S NOTE: The funeral 57 years ago for North Kenai’s George Coe Dudley became the stuff of local legend. A…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: A similar version of this story first appeared in the Redoubt Reporter in 2010.
Seward’s Brown and Hawkins Buildings included in the Historic American Buildings Survey at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Thirty-five-year-old Rex Hanks homesteaded in the Happy Creek valley in 1946. He remained a bachelor until 1953, when…
Rex Hanks served in World War II, then left his home state of Washington and came to Alaska to seek new opportunities
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Happy Valley resident Rex Hanks began his own private cemetery in the winter of 1951. By the end…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This first chapter of the Rex Hanks story includes many other individuals and numerous actions and transactions. It…
By Clark Fair
It had been a good vacation, the first time in a decade that Sophia Grönroos had been outside of Alaska….
AUTHOR’S NOTE: W.R. Benson, in his mid-50s when he and wife Mable moved from Seward to Homer in 1943, seemed…
As the 35th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill approaches on March 24, retired fisheries biologist Loren Flagg told…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: W.R. Benson was a mover and a shaker throughout his life, but particularly so in Alaska. After he…
On Nov. 23, 1941—just two weeks before the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor—it was bitterly cold in Seward. According to…