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July 25, 1924 – M. Susuki, Japanese, shot and killed Margaret Adrianoff, aged seventeen, and fatally wounded her mother, Mrs. Casper Adrianoff, at the Alaska Glacier Sea Food Company’s plant Thursday. After the double tragedy, Susuki ran down the dock towards town, reloading his gun, then suddenly sat down and shot himself through the temple. For some time Susuki had been paying attention to and bothering the girl, and had wanted her to marry him. As far as the Adrianoff family was concerned, he was just an acquaintance. The shooting took pla...
July 17 – Found property was returned to its owner. Petersburg Police Department (PPD) received a report of a disabled and unattended vehicle blocking access on Dock Street. A skiff on Harbor Way was impounded. July 18 – PPD received a report of a wandering pup on Howkan Street. PPD received a report of juveniles drinking in a vehicle parked in the South Harbor lot. James Clark, Erik Edwards and Isaiah Etcher were issued citations for minors in possession of alcohol. Elizabeth Burns was issued a citation for operating a motor vehicle with an...
This sign was Petersburg’s first museum sign. Installed in 1967, it was cut from plywood and hand-painted white with yellow and brown lettering. In August of 1962, Elsie Clausen and the local Pioneers of Alaska opened a ‘museum’ in Petersburg’s City Council Chambers. Elsie and Claire Strand chose the name “Petersburg Museum Society.” Elsie and Carroll Clausen worked with the City of Petersburg, individuals and many organizations to establish community interest in the region’s history while they acquired and maintained items for the museum to...
While the king salmon struggling to get upstream are benefitting from the past week of heavier-than-normal rainfall, the townsfolk of Petersburg are finding the weather less enjoyable. A resident heads down to check the bilge pump on his boat moored at "poor man's float" in North Harbor, where, according to harbor staff, a 16-foot jet skiff was sunk by the rain on Wednesday....
July 18, 1924 – Two men, one masked, held up Ole Jackson aboard the gasboat Jiggs shortly after midnight in Auke Bay at Pelton Cove, and made their escape with $500 ($9,186.40 today) which Jackson had in a sack to purchase fish. Ole Jackson, who is a buyer for H.R. Thompson, of Juneau, left on the Jiggs from City Dock the same evening, going over the bar to Pelton Cove where he anchored for the night. About seven o’clock, Jackson turned in to make an early start in the morning for Hoonah and adjacent places to buy fish from trollers. Som...
Former photographer and current sketcher and painter Ron Hall is having his first big art show called "Colors Speak To Me," on display July 22 through July 31 at the Clausen Memorial Museum. Ron began his art career as an aerial photographer. "I took aerial photos for the Forest Service in Southeast Alaska, California and Florida," said Hall. After moving into Petersburg Medical Center's Long Term Care several years ago, Hall took up sketching and eventually painting as a hobby. Hall has been...
After days of heavier-than-normal rain in Petersburg, the Rainforest Festival is taking advantage of a potential reprieve from the weather over the weekend to bring wildflowers into the spotlight with their Mountain Meadow Wildflower Walk at the Twin Creek this Sunday. Hosted by Mary Clemens, the event will bring participants on a "slow meander" through the muskeg in front of the Twin Creek Shelter with Clemens pointing out local flora and answering questions along the way. "It's not going to...
Former pastor and current minister Bob Carter preaches during the Presbyterian Church's 100th anniversary on July 13, 2024, in Petersburg, Alaska. Carter was the church's pastor from 1982-2019 and has returned to serve in the role for summer 2024....
This aerial view shows a paddle boarder exploring Spurt Cove during Saturday morning's calm, foggy low tide....
July 11, 1924 – With perfect weather as though ordered for occasion and a list of interesting exercises and sports carried through without a hitch, and with many out-of-town visitors present, the 1924 Fourth in Petersburg proved an unqualified success. The Filipino team won from the whites in baseball by a score of 10 to 4. Bonapart Cambas and young Johnson boxed three lively rounds, the decision going to the former on a foul. Rayborn showed his skill on a surfboard by riding behind the fastest boat in Alaska, piloted by Earl Ohmer. No o...
The Market in Petersburg had special visitors on Saturday when around twenty of Petersburg’s Leikarring Dancers arrived in their blue and white bunads to perform a handful of traditional Scandinavian folk dances for shoppers and vendors at the outdoor market....
The Eastman Kodak Brownie Target Six-20 was produced between 1941 and 1952. The camera's housing is stiff cardboard covered in leatherette. It has a meniscus lens (one convex side and one concave side) and two viewfinders, one for portraits and the other for landscapes. It uses 620 roll film to produce 2 1/4" by 3 1/4" images. The rotary shutter is set at one speed (~1/40th of a second) and a slider on top of the metal faceplate sets the aperture. Pulling up on the slider allows for bright...
NOAA Fisheries announced the extension of the public comment period on their May 24, 2024, 90-day finding on a petition to list Gulf of Alaska (GOA) Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), or any evolutionarily significant unit (ESU) that may exist in the petitioned area, as a threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). As part of that finding, they solicited scientific and commercial information about the status of this population and announced a 60-day public comment period to end on July 23, 2024. That public...
On Saturday, the Rainforest Festival’s Ephemeral Art Show graced the Sandy Beach Park area with numerous installations of art made from materials found in the environment — the art is intended not to last long but to become part of the environment again. Simultaneously in the park , the Petersburg Arts Council’s Moving Music concert series was featuring performances by local musicians....
July 4, 1924 – The Herald fully agrees with Pat O’Cotter in an article in the Alaska Weekly in which he says, among other things: “Captain Lathrop and George Edward Lewis made a real Alaskan picture, ‘The Chechacoes.’ It was financed and also filmed in Alaska, and nine-tenths of the cast were real Alaskans. It was the first picture ever made in Alaska and when the big producers in the East saw it, they grabbed it and they are giving it the biggest kick-off that a picture ever got in America, and it’s all because it’s a genuine Alaska picture. I...
Hikers make their camp at the high point of the ridge along the ten mile unmaintained trail from Twin Creek Shelter to the Raven's Roost Trailhead at Sandy Beach....
The rock work is well underway on Petersburg Indian Association's City Creek Trail extension project, which is anticipated by the end of the year to complete the mile-long, gravel and boardwalk trail improvement, connecting Sandy Beach Park to City Creek....
Ripples on Crystal Lake sparkle during a sunny June hike up Crystal Mountain, around 18 miles south of Petersburg on Mitkof Island....
A red sunset over Petersburg Mountain reflects in the calm waters of South Harbor on Tuesday night....
June 27, 1924 – The cannery of P.E. Harris at Scow Bay ran through 800 salmon Monday. This was the second salmon to be canned this season around Petersburg. The Mountain Packing Company was the first, having run through 86 cases last Saturday. The trollers have been making big hauls. Otto Sutter of the Fidalgo Packing Company, who was in town recently, reported that the big run in the Copper River district near Cordova was of short duration. The Petersburg packing Company canned fish Thursday. The Kingsmill Brought the fish from Colpoys and Eag...
Siblings Kylie, Elizabeth and Duncan Goodridge (left to right) took advantage of some sunshine to help decorate the recently repainted wall in front of Daniel Christensen's house at 111 South Nordic Drive. This is the second time Christensen has invited Petersburg residents to help create a mural. The idea came to him when he painted the wall during quarantine and thought it would be a nice opportunity for families to get outside with their kids to do something fun. He asks that artists use...
This pack board, consisting of a wooden frame and a canvas body, was owned by Petersburg fisherman Per Sather Senior. Originally from Norway, Sather owned the fishing vessels Gjoa and Zarembo. The pack board's label reads, "Trapper Nelson's Indian Pack Boards." The was designed by Lloyd F. Nelson and manufactured by the Traeger Manufacturing Company in Monroe, Washington. While working in Alaska in the 1920s, Nelson set out on a hike into the woods with an old Inuit backpack made of sticks and...
During the week of summer solstice the rising sun silhouettes Devil’s Thumb. This golden light was captured in the very early morning of June 18....
