Sorted by date Results 51 - 75 of 3812
From the street, it's hard to guess what's tucked beneath the roofline of Zach Peeler and Maura Moyer's sleek, gray, two-door garage near Hungry Point. What began as a simple workshop design-a place for tools and a space to store Zach's jet boat-evolved with their relationship. As the couple grew closer, the project grew as well, expanding from a bachelor's workshop into the pair's first home together. "[The living space] was going to be a lot more modest, tiny, like almost [just a room] in the...
I've called the Petersburg area home for four years now, and I can tell you this is not an easy place to be a gardener. Incessant rain, lack of warmth and sun, sour peat soil and hungry wildlife all seem to make growing anything other than moss and ferns an uphill battle. Gardening demands a lot of effort, and seeing your precious plants get eaten up or slowly drowned after all the time and money you spent nurturing them is truly disheartening. Can a fruit tree really be called that if it never...
July 31, 1925 – Owing to the great fleet of boats this year engaged in trolling for king salmon, it is said there are more boats than king salmon and that very little money has been made by individual fishermen as a rule. As the result, some of the trolling boats have been beating it to the Cape Flattery fishing grounds off the Washington coast. Among these boats are both Alaska and outside boats. Nels Sandvick of Petersburg recently laid up his boat here and left for Flattery with Oscar Hendricks on the Bernice. It is claimed by fishermen t...
The view on Friday morning of LeConte Bay seen from a floatplane flying over LeConte Glacier....
July 24, 1925 – Fishing banks now visited by vessels of Canada and the United States give promise of little increased production. The depletion of these banks is recognized by the two governments in their halibut treaty of May 31, 1924, providing for an annual closed season on the Pacific coast banks from November 15 to February 15. Halibut fishing is a joint enterprise between the vessel owner and his crew of fishermen. Certain items of cost are paid jointly while others are paid by one or the other according to agreement. The Pacific coast m...
July 17, 1925 – The musicians and joy makers of the power boat Argo, who gave moving picture shows and entertainment at Port Alexander and other canneries and fishing points, intend to give a weekly dance in Petersburg for the remainder of the season. Petersburg people who attended the last dance declared that the music furnished was excellent and are looking forward to the next dance. The members of the band are Kingdon Brice, piano; Cecil Rogers, violin; Frank Johns, saxophone; and Gene Brice, drums. The different ports of call for the c...
Spectators watch from the pier and Jeff Erickson stands by with the pike pole during the final moment of the log rolling tournament. In the end, women's champion Anya Pawuk fell from the log like everyone else who tried to outlast this year's overall champion Britton Erickson....
July 10, 1925 – “Alaska is the source of much interest to the people of the Scandinavian countries,” said Bergendahl, editor and author of Oslo, Norway, who is now making an extended trip of Alaska. “We read all we can find on the subject of Alaska, in fact, our reading of Alaska, fact or fiction, exceeds that of any other country or locality.” Mr. Bergendahl is the representative of 42 newspapers and journals in the Scandinavian countries, and he is also writing for six large Norwegian-American daily papers. He expects to spend more than four...
Heterochone calyx, also called the Goblet Sponge, is one of the largest species of sponge on the Pacific Coast. A type of glass sponge, H. calyx is often found in deep, cold waters, particularly on the western coast of North America. The specimen on display at the Clausen Museum was caught by the F/V Frigidland about 25 miles off the coast of Baker Island, just west of Craig, Alaska. In 2008 the boat was long lining for black cod when this beautiful specimen came up, caught by a single hook...
July 3, 1925 – For the past three weeks or more there has been feverish activity on the waterfront along Bay View Drive in the boat building line. As a result, recently, one “full-rigged power boat” was launched with all the necessary ceremonies, including a bottle of soda pop waved in front of the bow and then poured down thirsty throats. And another boat is about to be launched! Perhaps more than one neighbor has found pieces of boards and planks missing from their backyards – but each piece has been sawed off and neatly fitted to create...
June 1, 1925 – First the water was off. Then the lights were off. And, of course, the power went off with the lights. In the first instance the pipe at the intake of the dam had filled up. Under the capable direction of Hans Wick and Chief of Police George Nicholson, a crew of men had the intake cleaned out and the water running in a short time. In trying to get men to go out, it was demonstrated that idle men in Petersburg are as scarce as hen’s teeth. Thursday afternoon and Thursday night the lights and power were off most of the time. The co...
June 12, 1925 – Miss Mary Wolverton has returned from the Cassiar mining district and says: “Three experienced miners who went to Gold Pan Creek diverted a stream at their own expense, after two months’ labor, and took out $1.60 in gold. Very little gold has been found. Many Alaskan and Yukon sourdoughs who went in with dog teams are coming out and are on their way to other fields. The only real money made is in selling claims for hundreds of dollars. One school teacher put her savings of $600 into a claim and sent in two men with supplies. The...
June 12, 1925 – U.S. Deputy Marshall H.O. Campbell and Special Deputy Earl West returned Sunday afternoon from Little Port Walter bringing with them the body of Adolph Falt who they left Wrangell last Thursday to arrest for having shot John Dahlstrom, a troller, five times. The officers left Wrangell on the gas boat Standard, owned by C.R. Bell who during the trip rendered the officers much valuable assistance. The fugitive was apprehended about nine o’clock Saturday morning in Tebenkof Bay, 20 miles from Little Port Walter. Owing to the Sta...
June 5, 1925 – Much interest is evinced in Petersburg over the trip of Roald Amundsen to the North Pole. Those most familiar with his methods and resourcefulness express very little anxiety over his fate, believing that he will return to civilization only after he has made a thorough examination of the great waste lands he set out to explore. Frederick Nelson, local agent of the Standard Oil Company, has an uncle, Helmer Hanson, now in Norway, who was with Amundsen on his trip to the South Pole, and who was the captain of the sloop Gjoa in w...
Petersburg Indian Association disposed of ten junk vehicles from around the community last month. "Ten junk vehicles for people who couldn't get them up to the dump," said Brandon Thynes who oversees the Indian Environmental General Assistance Program (IGAP) for PIA. "It went really well, people were really up for it and it helped the community," said Thynes. "We contracted a towing company, and they towed the vehicle and took out the fluids and did the tires." More residents signed up than...
