In this Listening Project conversation D.J. Roundtree speaks with her friend Heidi Lee about the Roundtree family cabin in Beecher’s Pass, built in 1927 with logs from Thomas Bay. The cabin was owned by several families before Izzy and Claude Roundtree, D.J.’s inlaws, purchased it in 1956. D.J. describes the cabin and the improvements her [...]
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DJ Roundtree and Heidi Lee
Posted in Lee, Heidi, Roundtree, DJ on April 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
DJ Roundtree
Posted in Roundtree, DJ, tagged Beecher's Pass, steamships on January 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
D.J. Roundtree tells friend and former colleague Cathy Cronlund the story of how she first came to Southeast Alaska as a tourist on a steamship and then returned as a young teacher in 1951. She recounts her astonishing first day in town and describes the old wooden school buildings. Then as now, Petersburg had a [...]
