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.
Seward’s Brown and Hawkins Buildings included in the Historic American Buildings Survey at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
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
It had been a good vacation, the first time in a decade that Sophia Grönroos had been outside of Alaska….
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