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Articles by Clark Fair
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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It’s laundry day on the Lancashire homestead. (1954 photo by Bob and Ira Spring for Better Homes & Garden magazine)
The Lancashires: Evolving lives on the evolving Kenai—Part...
By Clark Fair • October 4, 2023 2:30 am

AUTHOR’S NOTE: A full decade would pass after the Lancashire family’s arrival on the central Kenai Peninsula before the area…

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Rusty Lancashire smiles for the camera in the frame house that in the late 1950s replaced the Lancashires’ original homestead log cabin. (Photo courtesy of the Lancashire Family Collection)
The Lancashires: Evolving lives on the evolving Kenai...
By Clark Fair • September 28, 2023 2:30 am

In the earliest days of the Sterling Highway and the adjoining Kenai Spur, the roads were lifelines between communities and among neighbors

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Rusty Lancashire does some baking. (1954 photo by Bob and Ira Spring for Better Homes & Garden magazine)
The Lancashires: Evolving lives on the evolving Kenai...
By Clark Fair • September 20, 2023 2:30 am

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Most of the people who came to homestead and stayed long term on the central Kenai Peninsula created…

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The Lancashire family shares a meal in their original homestead cabin. (1954 photo by Bob and Ira Spring for Better Homes & Garden magazine)
The Lancashires: Evolving lives on the evolving Kenai...
By Clark Fair • September 13, 2023 2:30 am

AUTHOR’S NOTE: By the first of August 1948, Larry and Rusty Lancashire and their three daughters (Martha, Lori and Abby)…

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Rusty Lancashire backs up the family tractor so her husband Larry can connect it to the disc for their fields. (1954 photo by Bob and Ira Spring for Better Homes & Garden magazine)
The Lancashires: Evolving lives on the evolving Kenai...
By Clark Fair • September 6, 2023 2:30 am

AUTHOR’S NOTE: By March 1948, a month before his 30th birthday, Larry Lancashire had already experienced an eventful adulthood. He…

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Larry and Rusty Lancashire (at left) pose in front of a B-24 bomber in the early 1940s with another unidentified couple. Larry was a B-24 co-pilot during World War II. (Photo courtesy of the Lancashire Family Collection)
The Lancashires: Evolving Lives on the Evolving Kenai...
By Clark Fair • August 30, 2023 2:30 am

Author’s note: In 1939, Rusty Tallman, an Illinois woman who had done some modeling and loved parties, married Larry Lancashire,…

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[1a—] After doing business in the Kenai Commercial Company store, Rusty Lancashire climbs into family station wagon, with its sagging back bumper, to head for home. (1954 photo by Bob and Ira Spring for Better Homes & Garden magazine)
The Lancashires: Evolving lives on the evolving Kenai...
By Clark Fair • August 23, 2023 2:30 am

In the summer of 1948, while Soldotna homesteader Howard Lee was helping Ridgeway homesteader Larry Lancashire build a cabin, he…

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Clark Fair photo
This plaque was created in the 1980s to memorialize persons known to have been buried in Homer Community Cemetery. The plaque was considered necessary because so many of the graves here had lost their markers or had never been marked.
Homer Community Cemetery: Difficulties in filling a public...
By Clark Fair • August 16, 2023 2:30 am

AUTHOR’S NOTE: After many years of making do with an absence of an official local burial ground, some citizens of…

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Clark Fair photo
Homer Community Cemetery was first established in 1928 and has been closed to non-reserved burials since the early 1980s.
Homer Community Cemetery: Difficulties in filling a public...
By Clark Fair • August 10, 2023 2:30 am

Two important events—one strategic, the other tragic—occurred in the Homer area on Sept. 21, 1928. Although they happened about a…

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Mable Smith pecks away at her typewriter in the Cheechako News office in Ridgeway, circa mid-1960s. (Cheechako News photo)
Don’t stop the presses
By Clark Fair • August 3, 2023 2:30 am

The Mable Smith Story — Part 2

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