Thu, August 25, 2016
Photos, text and audio production by Anjuli Grantham. The Waterfall Resort on Prince of Wales Island is a busy place in the summer. Dozens of guests at a time occupy the old cannery, turning a place that once produced canned salmon for the marketplace into a place that caters to sports fishermen eager to feed themselves. But if you venture to this historic cannery in the spring, you will only find a skeleton crew of carpenters and winter watchmen, engaged in...
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Sun, August 21, 2016
By: Anjuli Grantham [caption id="attachment_4603" align="alignleft" width="225"] The letter, part of Karen Hofstad's collection[/caption] Petersburg resident Karen Hofstad’s salmon can label and tin collection overwhelms. It is so good, it’s difficult to know where to begin once perusing commences. Should we start with the original, handmade tins from the early canneries along the Sacramento River or with the tins from the companies that consolidated to create the Alaska Packers Association in 1893? What about the pound tall labels, or the...
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Sat, August 20, 2016
In commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of the Aleutians, Valor Tours will be conducting a tour of the Aleutian Islands from June 11-25, 2017 with planned stops at Adak, Atka, Attu, Kiska, Umnak and Unalaska. Valor Tours offers the only commercial means of reaching those places. John Cloe, one of Alaska's premiere military historians, will be one of the tour leaders. For more information or to reserve a spot, contact Valor Tours at www.valortours.com or 415-332-7850. Or toll free at 800-842-4504.
Sat, June 04, 2016
[caption id="attachment_4480" align="alignright" width="890"] Parks Cannery, now the Spirit of Alaska Wilderness Lodge, photographed in the summer of 2015 for the West Side Stories project. Photo by Breanna Peterson.[/caption] The important work of documenting cannery history became clearly- and tragically- evident last week when an early morning fire broke out at the Parks Cannery in Uyak Bay on the west side of Kodiak Island. One person was killed and three were injured in the fire, which appears to have not...
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Thu, May 05, 2016
By: Bob King, Juneau Inside an abandoned storage unit auctioned off in Everett, WA, last year, the successful bidder found, among other things, a folder that included some high school football programs dating back to the early 1950s and a small, 6 by 4 inch, yellow metal plate: a 1949 Alaska non-resident fisherman’s license. Not recognizing the item, he reached out to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. They didn’t recognize it either and turned to members of the...
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