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    Photo courtesy of the Keeler Family Collection
In 1951, shortly after they had purchased their new jeep (pictured), the Keeler family (L-R: Larry, April, Marion, Lorna and Lawrence) used it to help another traveler extract his own vehicle from a snowy ditch. The other driver took this photo and later sent a copy of the image to the Keelers.
    Keeler Clan of the Kenai — Part 2
    By Clark Fair • January 10, 2024 2:30 am

    AUTHOR’S NOTE: Lawrence and Lorna Keeler, along with their three children and Lawrence’s older brother Floyd, left Oregon on June…

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    Louvie “Vi” Chapman photo courtesy of the Pratt Museum
Lawrence Keeler (right) talks at his Anchor Point sawmill with Sherman Chapman in 1950. Keeler was cutting spruce logs for Chapman’s home.
    Keeler Clan of the Kenai — Part 1
    By Clark Fair • January 4, 2024 2:30 am

    AUTHOR’S NOTE: Over a four-year period beginning in 1947, three siblings from Oregon’s large Keeler family settled on the Kenai…

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    Rex Edwards experimented with many activities, including fencing, for the students at the school in Seldovia. In the 1973-74 school year, he even attempted to coach football, even though the only “field” available was the beach. Here are the “Seldovia Retreaters” as they appeared in the school’s 1974 yearbook. (Image courtesy of Rex and Beverly Edwards)
    First in the Pool — Part 2
    By Clark Fair • December 27, 2023 2:30 am

    AUTHOR’S NOTE: This is the second part of a two-part story about former teachers Rex and Beverly Edwards and the…

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    Betty Fuller, working with a shovel outside the Cooper Landing Post Office in 1969, was among the first to suggest that her town’s first post office had been named for a postal official. (Photo courtesy of Mona Painter)
    Riddiford: Story of a Name Change — Part...
    By Clark Fair • November 29, 2023 2:30 am

    AUTHOR’S NOTE: Cooper Landing, on the Kenai Peninsula, was once identified with a postal inspector named Charles Arthur Riddiford. In…

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    Charles Riddiford, far right in the back row, posed for this Spokane Post Office staff photo in 1898 when he was just a clerk. The photo appeared in a 1922 edition of the Spokesman Review, along with a discussion of the post office’s tremendous growth.
    Riddiford: Story of a Name Change — Part...
    By Clark Fair • November 21, 2023 2:30 am

    AUTHOR’S NOTE: Place names can be ephemeral. And they can fade for myriad reasons. Sometimes offensive names are replaced by…

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    Photo from Ball Family memorial slideshow, 2022
This photo from the early 1960s shows Jackson Ball enjoying the Christmas holidays with his eldest three daughters. His fourth and youngest daughter was born less than a year and a half before Ball’s death in 1968.
    Human Complexity: The Story of Jackson Ball —...
    By Clark Fair • November 8, 2023 2:30 am

    AUTHOR’S NOTE: Misfortune was written across the recent history of the Arlon Elwood “Jackson” Ball family. Ball’s father had been…

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    Photo courtesy of the Ball Family Collection
After being honorably discharged from the U.S. Army in 1945, Arlon Elwood “Jackson” Ball posed for this photograph, demonstrating his five years of military service through his many ribbons, badges and patches.
    Human Complexity: The Story of Jackson Ball —...
    By Clark Fair • October 25, 2023 2:30 am

    A Premise to Explore

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    1954 photo by Bob and Ira Spring for Better Homes & Garden magazine
The Lancashire sisters(L-R, Lori, Abby and Martha), cleaning up in their younger, more carefree days.
    The Lancashires: Evolving lives on the evolving Kenai...
    By Clark Fair • October 18, 2023 2:30 am

    In the 1950s, Lori Lancashire and her sisters, Martha and Abby, had glimpsed brief but tantalizing views of the possibilities and opportunities outside of Alaska

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    Despite the misspelling of “Bordenelli,” this legal advertisement, which appeared in the Cheechako News on Aug. 21, 1964, set the stage for the transfer that allowed Larry’s Club to come into existence.
    The Lancashires: Evolving lives on the evolving Kenai...
    By Clark Fair • October 11, 2023 2:30 am

    AUTHOR’S NOTE: In late 1948, after six months of homestead living on the central Kenai Peninsula, Rusty Lancashire wrote home…

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    Local documentary ‘Rebuilding Brown’ to show at Homer...
    By Delcenia Cosman • October 11, 2023 1:30 am

    The film highlights the restoration of a Lake Clark cabin by authors Anne Coray and Steve Kahn

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    Longtime Ninilchik restaurant now on the market
    By Delcenia Cosman • August 30, 2023 1:30 am

    Rosco’s Pizza, a Ninilchik community fixture, will be changing hands in the near future

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    Emilie Springer/ Homer News
From left: Megumi Beams, Rachel Tussey and Steve Yoshida attend an event harvesting part of a ginkgo tree at the Homer Public Library on Sunday.
    Growing peace
    By Emilie Springer • August 10, 2023 1:30 am

    Homer Public Library harvests part of Peace tree on Hiroshima anniversary

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    Fritz Creek Community Center. Photo provided by Tim Hatfield with the Kenai Peninsula History public media group.
    History and memories from the Fritz Creek General...
    By Emilie Springer • July 12, 2023 1:30 am

    Community members share thoughts from the East End Road landmark

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