Hands sticky with pitch and having fun as they hang strips of yellow cedar bark are (left to right) Kari Petersen, Mary Ann Rainy, Stephanie Hayes, Abbey Hardie, Debra O'Gara and Lily Hope.
What started as casual airplane conversation between strangers last fall blossomed into a community harvest this week that supplied Petersburg's traditional weavers with a year's supply of yellow cedar bark.
Juneau-based Alaska Native artist Lily Hope was flying from Seattle to Juneau in November when she struck up a conversation with her seatmate, Brett Martin, co-owner of Alaska Timber and Truss, the Petersburg sawmill located on Falls Creek Road.
Hope recalled, "He said, 'Oh, you use yellow cedar? Well, I cut a lot of yellow cedars. You know, every year it's in the acreage of trees that we...
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