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Hours before the annual lefse and lutefisk dinner took place at Sons of Norway Hall on Feb. 4, Sally Dwyer instructs Joe Hofstetter on how to roll out balls of dough that would soon become lefse, a Norwegian treat: Coat the cloth-covered pastry board with flour, as well as the ball of potato-based dough, start in the center and push in each direction with a rolling pin to roll out the dough into a circular shape. Once thin enough, the dough is pried from the board with a lefse stick and...
February 8, 1924 – An interesting discussion took place before the meeting of the Petersburg Men’s Club last Saturday evening when Thos. Elsemore, at that time a candidate on the Republican ticket for the Senate, and C. Christensen, a candidate on the Democratic ticket for the House, appeared and answered questions. Both candidates frankly admitted that so far they had not worked out a platform in detail, but were prepared to act to the best of their abilities for the general good of the Territory. A feature of the meeting was a talk by Rev. Jo...
February 1, 1924 – To drop dead immediately after saying he felt “fine” was the case of a man aged 50, who is known locally as N. Martin. Martin went to the Arthur Yates Memorial Hospital in Ketchikan on Saturday afternoon with a friend to see acquaintances there. He had been in the hospital from January 6 through the 15 with pneumonia and a bad heart and on leaving he was warned to be careful. When he arrived at the hospital Saturday he was asked how he felt, to which question he answered “fine.” Then he turned around and dropped. When pick...
The Pilot would like to congratulate those Petersburg High School students who earned a spot on the First Semester Honor Rolls. Students with a 4.0 grade point are named to the Highest Honor Roll: Natalee Bertagnoli, Hendrik Cumps, Waylon Jones, Eleanor Kandoll, Ali Kittams, Kinley Lister, Martha Midkiff, Rebecca Midkiff, Mette Miller, Anya Pawuk, Joseph Tagaban, Alisa Tolkachova, Maria Toth, and Elias Ward. Students with a grade point average of 3.5 to 3.99 are named to the High Honor Roll: Elias Anderson, Kristina Barkfelt, Ethan Bertagnoli,...
Just before Christmas this year, Mori Hays, of Haines, and Petersburg's Julia Murph found themselves in an unfamiliar situation: waiting in line to take a selfie. Most of the past year and a half had been spent on the saddle of their bicycles slogging through thousands of miles of rain and heat, or camped out in soccer fields or deserts at night. Now they were fighting other tourists for a spot to get a photo in front of the iconic sign that stands in Ushuaia, Argentina, a windswept tourist...
January 18, 1924 – An overheated stove caused a fire early Wednesday forenoon which practically destroyed the residence of Mr. and Mrs. William Stedman. The house was occupied by Miss Grissinger, teacher in the local school, who lost many of her clothes and personal belongings. The fire was caused by the heating stove in the front room and started in the partition back of the stove and quickly burned its way through the ceiling and roof. The alarm was sounded by M.S. Perkins who discovered the flames shortly after they started. The fire d...
The Pilot would like to congratulate those Petersburg High School students who earned a spot on the First Semester Honor Rolls. Students with a 4.0 grade point are named to the Highest Honor Roll: Alisa Tolkachova, Natalee Bertagnoli, Hendrik Cumps, Waylon Jones, Eleanor Kandoll, Ali Kittams, Kinley Lister, Martha Midkiff, Rebecca Midkiff, Mette Miller, Anya Pawuk, Joseph Tagaban, Maria Toth, and Elias Ward. Students with a grade point average of 3.5 to 3.99 are named to the High Honor Roll: Elias Anderson, Kristina Barkfelt, Ethan Bertagnoli,...
Julian Cumps, son of Alice and Thomas Cumps, was named to the Fall 2023 Dean’s List, a scholarly award for students who demonstrate academic excellence. Julian is studying Mathematics and Computer Science at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota....
January 11, 1924 – The Petersburg Chamber of Commerce this week passed its first birthday as an active organization. Treasurer Ed Locken rendered his report for the year showing that $726.95 was collected and expended during the last year to carry on the work of the organization. Secretary M.S. Perkins reported in detail on the work which has been accomplished by the Club during the year. The Club since its inception has become one of the most active of the Alaskan organizations, holding regular meetings twice each month and considering p...
January 11, 1924 – With $30,000 capital, subscribed by forty residents of Wrangell, a cold storage plant will be erected at Wrangell and be placed in operation in the spring, according to the Wrangell Sentinel. The plant will be in the charge of Oliver D. Leet, a cold storage engineer. The coming of Mr. Leet to establish a business that is greatly needed here is an example of how the tourist business may become a means of developing the country. During the past summer, Dr. D.H. Leet, a prominent surgeon of the Buckeye state, accompanied by h...
Around 60 community members answered Bennett McGrath’s call to join together at the ballfield and send a message of love and support to the Rodney and Mindy Anderson family as they go through a very difficult time. Many of the Anderson’s friends and neighbors joined together in the shape of a heart for the aerial photograph taken by Mike Lane of Sunrise Aviation from Wrangell....
Entering its second year, the Petersburg Bike Park is off to a good start of 2024 with volunteers working twice in a week during a streak of accommodating weather. On New Year's Day, about 20 volunteers made significant progress - adding 200 feet of new bike trail, grooming 1000 feet of trail by rake and shovel, and adding seven new features like rollers and berms. A handful of volunteers gathered at the bike park again on Saturday, riding the momentum to continue making progress. Volunteers...
Like starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumbers, Gorgonocephalus eucnemis, or basket stars, are echinoderms. They have round, flat bodies and five many-branched arms that can reach up to three feet long and will regenerate if wounded. They rest by day, then at night they roam the floor of the deep ocean looking for a spot with a strong current in which to hunt. Perched atop a rock or coral, they unfurl their complex arms lined with "jointed" hooks and spines, forming a net to catch krill, small...
January 4, 1924 – Announcement has been made from the office of Territorial Treasurer Smith that the Territory has paid the bounty on 4,500 eagles killed within her confines during the past year and that since the legislature increased the bounty to one dollar there has been a noted increase in the number of eagle claws presented and on which the bounty is paid. One resident of the Rocky Pass section, near Kake, is the banner eagle exterminator, having collected the bounty on 400 pair of claws during the year. December 31, 1948 – Fire, of an...
December 28, 1923 – Work on the new Petersburg school building has been completed and the desks and equipment from the old building were moved this week. When school resumes on the 2nd of January it will be in the new building, which is second to none in Alaska and one of the finest north of Seattle. While the gymnasium was not erected this year on account of a shortage of funds, this will no doubt be added next year. The last issue of the Alaska School Bulletin says: The Petersburg school building, now nearing completion, is among the f...
George Henderson founded Dorchester Pottery in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1895. The pottery made jugs, jars, flower pots, butter pots, specialty items and, later, dinnerware. This stoneware foot warmer, donated to the museum by Harvey Gilliland, dates back to 1912, the year Henderson was granted a patent for "a new and useful improvement in taps or nipples for earthenware containers" – a leak-proof metal screw-off tap that was used in place of a rubber stopper. The Henderson foot warmer w...
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