AUTHOR’S NOTE: The aftermath of the 1967 shoot-out at the Hilltop Bar and Café, near Soldotna, began to play out…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: After the Ann Pederson suicide and the Jack Griffiths murder in 1961, the former Circus Bar in Soldotna…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The jury in the Jim Bush murder trial would soon have a decision to make. Bush did not…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: When a crime has no witnesses other than the accused perpetrator, investigators must search hard for other forms…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Only a few months after the 1961 suicide of “Mrs. Oscar W. Pederson” behind a bar in eastern…
From the moment my father began working for the U.S. Army in Whittier, Alaska, in the fall of 1957, until…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Although the focus of this interconnected series of stories rests squarely upon actions that occurred in or near…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The motives people have for violent actions can be difficult to discern. We can examine the evidence we…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Best friends Ira Little and Marvin Smith came from California to the Kenai Peninsula in 1947. They homesteaded…
For the better part of a decade on the central Kenai Peninsula, the lives of Ira Little and Marvin Smith…
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.
