AUTHOR’S NOTE: The failed 1898 gold-seeking expedition to the Kenai Peninsula by the Kings County Mining Company has been an…
By Clark Fair
AUTHOR’S NOTE: In 1948, after nearly a quarter-century in law enforcement in Ohio, Cecil Miller, his wife Dorothy and their…
There are several theories concerning the origin of Cecil Miller’s nickname “Greasy.” Many of those notions are probably apocryphal.
By the late 1970s, Poopdeck was already investing in stocks and bonds.
Poopdeck Platt was nearly 80 when he decided to retire from commercial fishing.
The story highlights the complexity of Jewish-Alaskan history.
Clarence Hiram “Poopdeck” Platt had already experienced two bad years in a row, when misfortune struck again in 1967.
In 1947, their correspondence led to wedding bells, and the magazine subscription led them to make a new home in the Territory of Alaska.
“For a while,” said Poopdeck, “we were eating guinea pigs.”
The story of Poopdeck Platt, who lived in Homer for nearly half a century, began in the American Northwest.
Clarence Hiram Platt — who preferred to have people call him Poopdeck — may have been slowing down, but he rarely stopped moving.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Born in Michigan, Keith McCullagh had brief careers in Alaska as a forest ranger, a commercial fisherman and…
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