In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Sons of Norway Fedrelandet 23, a group of past officers and long-time members gather together at Petersburg ‘s Mountain View Manor to reflect upon some of their fond memories at the Sons of Norway. Listen to this excerpt as Tora Thynes, Neva Christensen, Jimmie Stafford, Roy Otness [...]
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Sons of Norway members share their cherished memories
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged basketball games, bingo, bizzares, coal heat, dances, daughter's of norway, dolls, earliest memories, fishing farewell parties, funerals, lutefisk, men's cloak room, old theater, petersburg cemetery, piano, ski cabin, wedding receptions, women's cloak room on April 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Calling all Veterans!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Listening Project is looking for stories from local Veterans. Stories will be archived at the Petersburg Public Library and with the Library of Congress’s Veteran’s History Project. The Veteran’s History Project collects first person accounts of military service in World War I, World War II, the wars in Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf, [...]
Ask the questions that matter
Posted in Uncategorized on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We’ll be recording conversations on Saturday January 8, 2011 – sign up now! Contact the library to make your appointment: (907) 772-3349. Can’t make it on January 8 but still want to participate? Call the library and let us know. More opportunities to record will be available Jan – July 2011.
Alaska Community Foundation funds year 2 of the Listening Project
Posted in Uncategorized on December 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to the generosity of the Alaska Community Foundation the Petersburg Public Library will continue recording the stories of Petersburg residents with the help of KFSK Public Radio . We’ll build on the success of the first phase of the Petersburg Listening Project and record even more stories from the community between January and July 2011. For more information [...]
Sisters in Flight Service
Posted in Uncategorized on August 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Patty Simpson and her sister Irene Roundtree started their lives in Petersburg as Wasvicks. Five Daughters Hill in Petersburg is named after the five sisters in their family. Both Patty and Ikie (as Irene is known) became involved with flying services in town when they were young married women with families. First Patty went to work for Lon [...]
Patti Norheim and Gloria Ohmer-Koenigs: “It was an Everything Store”
Posted in Norheim, Patti, Ohmer-Koenigs, Gloria, Uncategorized on August 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
When Patti and Gloria went to apply for a loan to start their store “the Cache”, the banker was dubious. The two women had no retail experience, eight kids between them, and besides they were related. Patti’s brother Dave was Gloria’s husband. They talked the banker into it anyway, and Patti says that in the sixteen [...]
Welcome to the Listening Project Blog for Petersburg, Alaska
Posted in Uncategorized on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Petersburg Listening Project was inspired by the National Story Corps Program that came through town last spring. Story Corps offered the opportunity to record a conversation between two people. The roster of appointments filled very quickly, with people eager to share and record their stories. There were far more people willing to participate than [...]
