AUTHOR’S NOTE: Most of the people who came to homestead and stayed long term on the central Kenai Peninsula created…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: By the first of August 1948, Larry and Rusty Lancashire and their three daughters (Martha, Lori and Abby)…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: By March 1948, a month before his 30th birthday, Larry Lancashire had already experienced an eventful adulthood. He…
Author’s note: In 1939, Rusty Tallman, an Illinois woman who had done some modeling and loved parties, married Larry Lancashire,…
In the summer of 1948, while Soldotna homesteader Howard Lee was helping Ridgeway homesteader Larry Lancashire build a cabin, he…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: After many years of making do with an absence of an official local burial ground, some citizens of…
Two important events—one strategic, the other tragic—occurred in the Homer area on Sept. 21, 1928. Although they happened about a…
The Mable Smith Story — Part 2
The Mable Smith Story — Part 1
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The last third of Charles Wagner’s memorable life involved occasional run-ins with the law and, later, declining health….
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Former longtime Kenai resident Charles Wagner was a memorable character. After living for about a decade in Seward,…
Most folks seemed to enjoy Charles A. Wagner. They appreciated his hospitality and generosity, his stories and good humor, and…
Alec Hardin MacDonald appeared in the census count as a resident of Takotna Village in Interior Alaska
