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Roxie Lee, who served as a library board member 60 years ago, gave the toast to her dear old friend during the Helmi Jensen Community Room dedication event in the Petersburg Public Library on Wednesday. "A toast to Helmi and a toast to the community. A room like this which is just going to be used over and over and over again for so many different activities. Helmi would have been so pleased ... Here's to Helmi a very creative, wonderful, wonderful person." All in attendance agreed and raised a...
April 7, 1922 The gas boat Progress, in charge of ‘Spanish Joe’ was captured recently at Ketchikan with the entire crew aboardt. When taken into custody she had some 65 cases of imported wet goods on board. Sometime before midnight officers Moyer Halllson and Van-Zandt took up a position near the roadhouse on the Wards Cove road and acting under instructions from Deputy Marshal Handy kept a sharp lookout for the expected booze runners. Their vigil lasted till shortly after midnight when a boat landed and the crew began unloading the cargo on...
This tiny camera is a Universal Minute 16, first introduced in 1949. Its “guillotine shutter” had a speed of 1/50th of a second. The camera holds 16 mm film that can be advanced by the lever on the camera’s side. Its manual boasted it could be carried in your smallest pocket or purse, and was an “expensive camera offered at an inexpensive price”. The small prints measured 2 1/4 by 3 1/4 inches. A special feature – especially for such a small piece of equipment – was the synchronized flash, allowing for picture-taking under a variety of co...
Mark and Sue McCallum, along with Pamela Mae Post, happily announce the marriage of Tess Walther and Ian McCallum. The happy couple eloped on April 1, 2022 in New York, New York. Tess is a doctoral student in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and Ian is a Project Engineer Diver at Marine Solutions Inc. They will reside in New York City....
March 24, 1922 What about the tide flats in front of town? It is a certainty that work will start on the dredging of Wrangell Narrows this year and will be running full blast by next season. Thousands of cubic yards of sand will be pumped from the Narrows directly in front of the town. What will be done with it? Will it be used to fill in the unsightly tide flats and convert the useless property into level building land or will it be allowed to run out into Frederick Sound? If the waterfront property owners will get together and ask the...
Early communication in Alaska took months by ship. Eventually the Washington-Alaska Military Cable Telegraph System (WAMCATS) was installed, but undersea cable was frequently severed by ice. Radiotelegraph replaced wires, and telephones were introduced, allowing some civilian use. WAMCATS became the Army Communication Service (ACS) and later Alaska Communications Service. RCA purchased ACS in 1969, agreeing to provide improved service to 142 remote communities. A teletype and modem could...
March 17, 1922 Workmen for the Petersburg cannery are expected here about the 1st of April to start the work of making cans and preparing the nets and trap web. The Petersburg cannery will pack as many cases as possible this season, according to word received from the south. Cans for 80,000 cases will be prepared and if more are needed they will be secured from outside. March 16, 1947 A large crowd of spectators thrilled Saturday afternoon to the cry of, “There she goes!,” as the “Waneta’, boat built at the Mitkof Marine Ways for Leon Hasbrou...
Stasia Maybelle Shirley Wagemaker was born to Maria and Brandon Wagemaker on February 25, 2022 at 12:27a.m. She weighed 7 lbs 13oz and measured 20.5 inches....
March 10, 1922 The pupils of the first and second grades received a vacation on Friday owing to the illness of Miss Edna Miller, teacher in that room. While Miss Miller is not seriously ill, her indisposition worked for the benefit of the kids and they enjoyed the day to the utmost. March 14, 1947 Authority has been received by Colonel L.H. Hewitt, district engineer, Seattle district, Corps of Engineers, to commence work on The Wrangell Narrows, Alaska. The Wrangell Narrows project consists of dredging approximately 16,000 cubic yards of ledge...
This framed picture of the Fisk sculpture in front of the museum was recently donated to the Museum by Karla and Lee Corrao. The painting is one of a number of works by Virginia Eggert in the Museum's collections, including a work commissioned by Elsie Clausen of Sing Lee Alley. The artist was a Juneau resident in the 1970's. Though Virginia generally works in acrylics, this painting appears to have been done in watercolor. After studying art in Montana and Arizona, Ms. Eggert went on to teach...
