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Executive Order 9066 Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in February 1942, established wartime civil control over lands from the Cascades and Sierra Nevadas to the sea, including Alaska. This order resulted in relocation and internment of Japanese-Americans and Alaska Natives living in the Pribilofs. Alaska was deemed a "military area" governed by the Alaska Travel Control, requiring permits for travel in and out of Alaska. Violating permit terms could mean exclusion...
October 1, 1920 Sixty three thousand dollars was the valuation placed on a shipment of live foxes taken south on the last trip of the City of Seattle from various fox farms in the Territory. Part of the shipment was from Skagway and the interior but 20 blue foxes and ten silvers were placed aboard the boat at Petersburg. The thirty foxes from here were consigned from the Hercules Fox company on Sukoi Islands to the eastern farm of the same concern located at Glance, Minnesota. September 28, 1945 The Junior High girls and Miss Heikes went...
September 24, 1920 The work of installing the new engine in the light plant is going ahead rapidly under the direction of Robert Allen, the local machinist. The engine arrived on the Admiral Rodman on Monday and was loaded onto a scow and floated to the power plant where it will be installed. On Thursday the work of dismantling the old engine was started. As soon as this engine is out of the way the concrete for the foundation of the new engine will be poured and will be allowed to set for five or six days before the new machine is put into...
On Monday, the kids at Kinder Skog showed their love for the Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department and EMS by decorating the sidewalk in front of the fire station with chalk drawings and words of thanks....
Local artist Born in Seattle in 1917, Josephine Crumrine was raised by her artist mother in various Alaskan locales including Southeast Alaska. After studying art down south, she returned to Alaska. In the 1940s the Alaska Steamship Company commissioned Josephine to create portraits of famous Alaskan sled dogs which were used as menu covers in their dining rooms. This one is "Rye," who was given to the Army at Chilkoot Barracks in Haines by adventurer Mary Joyce after a 1,000 mile sled trip...
Smoke from the recent fires could be seen over Thomas Bay from flight 65 on September 17....
The first stop along the Ephemeral Art Show route during the Rainforest Festival was Heidi Lee's "Flora." She got the inspiration for the piece from her grandmother who would wait at that spot for her husband and sons to return from the fishing grounds. See more photos on page 6....
September 17, 1920 Last Friday evening about 6 o’clock was a red letter day for many Petersburg residents both young and old. At that time they caught their first glimpse of an airplane flying when Plane No. 4 of the New York Nome air squadron flew over the town. Heralded by a loud humming which brought many people to the streets, the plane flew down Wrangell Narrows from the north made a large circle over the waters in front of the town and then returned over the same course as it followed coming in. The four planes in company left W...
Pictured is a popular ridge on Petersburg Mountain where hikers like to take a break. In the background across Frederick Sound is the Alaska Coastal Range, known for fjords, ice fields and tidewater glaciers....
State Representative Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins will hold public office hours Fri., Sept. 18 from 1-2 p.m. and Sat., Sept. 19 from 9-10 a.m. at Salty Pantry. Both times will be outside and socially distanced. Masks are encouraged. No appointment is necessary....
Alan Mooney paints the side of Hammer & Wikan Hardware on Friday, Sept. 11....
Matt Garretts tested the limits of his truck on Sept. 1 when he packed the bed full of debris to take to the dump....
Low tide at Castle Flats Cabin on Labor Day left nearby boats aground until the tide rose again later in the day....
Robyn and Daniel Cardenas's float house enroute to Petersburg from Wrangell on Sept. 3....
In 1962, a Petersburg sewing club learned that the people of Noatak, population 270, were in need of clothing and fabric for household goods. The group's secretary, Mrs. Leon Hasbrouck, wrote the Noatak Mother's Club with an offer of fabric, clothing and other items for the community. A local airline even offered to fly the gift box for free. Letters, goods and toys were exchanged; and in 1965, a thank-you package from Noatak arrived for Petersburg. It included tiny replica Inuit yo-yos,...
The calm waters at Sandy Beach reflected the morning sunrise....
September 3, 1920 W. A. Altman, locating engineer for the Butler Paper Co. of Chicago, was in Petersburg for several days this week investigating water power sites and paper mill locations. Mr. Altman made several side trips from Petersburg and investigated from every angle. He did say that the Thomas Bay site was one of the best he had seen in southeastern Alaska. August 31, 1945 Miss Myrtle Cornelius, owner of Cornelius Mercantile Company returned from Seattle via Ketchikan. She was in Seattle when the word came that the war had ended and...
Three Alaska Marine Highway ferries are pictured at the Auke Bay terminal on Tuesday, Aug. 25 as the M/V Matanuska departed for Petersburg and other southbound ports. The M/V Kennicott and M/V Tazlina are shown tied to the pier. A fourth ferry, the M/V LeConte pulled into port just after the Matanuska pulled away from the berth. The Matanuska was off-line the prior week after the crew was tested for COVID infections in Bellingham and the ship was cleaned before resuming service to Southeast...
August 27, 1920 The River and Harbor Act passed by the last session of Congress provides for a survey of Wrangell Narrows for the purpose of obtaining data as to the feasibility of dredging the Narrows and probable cost. One of the chief advantages to Petersburg from the deepening and straightening of Wrangell Narrows would be better boat service. At present only the smaller boats stop here and they have to wait for favorable tides. The improvement would enable all the larger boats to stop here and would enable all the steamers to pass through...
In the Aug. 20 issue of the Petersburg Pilot, a photo of a hummingbird on page 16 was incorrectly credited to Brian Varela. It was Brian Lynch who submitted the photo to the Pilot....
