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.
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
