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The opportunity is growing for home builders in Petersburg to use locally milled Tongass timber in their new building projects. The sawmill on Falls Creek Road - Alaska Timber and Truss, owned in partnership by Brett Martin and Mike Duman - is offering complete home and cabin kits using locally harvested timber. The operation produces solid wall and timber frame cabin kits and larger stick-built home packages. "The cabin kits are kind of more of a traditional size ... generally speaking, under...
After putting her two-year-old daughter, Sonora, to bed, Jenna Wilson-Ashby picks green beans in one of her two greenhouses on a recent evening in Petersburg. It's her eighth year tending this garden, and she understands the ups and downs involved with growing food in Southeast Alaska. This year has proven to be a challenging growing season thanks to the continuous rain and cool temperatures throughout May and June. "That's okay, we'll try again next year," she says, describing how only 40 of...
Perched quietly above Petersburg Dental on S Nordic Drive, Cherise and Jay Lister's two-suite Inn, The Nordic House, might be easy to overlook from the sidewalk; but as visitors ascend the stairs and step into their newly renovated Hjem Suite, the transformation is immediate. Soft northern light floods the space from large windows framing deep blue waterside views, transporting guests into a world entirely removed from the streetscape below. What started as a simple lighting upgrade turned into...
"The best architecture reflects someone's worldview." This idea was one of the first things to come to mind for Linda Millard when describing the home she designed for herself and her husband Sam Bergeron on a quiet, wooded lot along Sandy Beach Road. Tall trees rise around the house that the two-a practicing architect and contractor-designed and built themselves; its charred-wood exterior blends into the deep tones of the Tongass rainforest, while broad windows open out toward the water...
“You’re in heaven for slugs here,” Casey H. Richart, Ph.D. told a Holy Cross House packed with farmers, when the Southeast Alaska Farmers Summit was held in Petersburg back in 2023. “They’ll graze your bok choy, your lettuce,” Richard told the grimly silent farmers. He described slugs as vectors of plant diseases, and pathogens to humans including E. coli, Rat Lungworm, and other infections that can lead to meningitis. On top of that, said Richart, “Slugs are an aesthetic pest. Slug poop is even less attractive than slugs, then there’s the hole...
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...
