Ketchikan, Alaska - Most of the stories about Alaska’s involvement in World War II deal with the Japanese attack on the Aleutians and the tragic relocation of hundreds of Aleuts from their homeland to ...
Ketchikan, Alaska - Sixty years ago this Fall, long before digital cable and large screen televisions, the residents of Ketchikan were just beginning to experience the first cable television operation ...
Ketchikan, Alaska - Twenty years ago this week, the hammer fell on the community of Ketchikan. On March 25, 1997, Louisiana Pacific announced the closure of the Ketchikan Pulp Mill, the primary engine ...
Ketchikan, Alaska - A half century ago, two identical passenger planes performing identical missions crashed in the waters off Southeast Alaska. One plane, with 102 people on board, successfully ...
Ketchikan, Alaska - When it gets a little wetter, or colder, or hotter than usual, Ketchikan residents immediately head to the historical records. Was that 5 inch rainfall the other day a record ...
Ketchikan, Alaska - To some Ketchikan’s downtown tunnel seems redundant. After all, according to a “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” newspaper column in 1967, it was the only tunnel in the world that could ...
Ketchikan, Alaska - Sixty five years ago, this week, Ketchikan experienced one of its most spectacular fires when the Canadian National steamship Prince George was destroyed after it caught fire at ...
(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - Every so often, when exploring a remote island in the Alexander Archipelago, one can come upon aset of puzzling remains. Fences and wire and sometimes dozens of rotting ...
Ketchikan, Alaska - At the beginning of most cruise ship sailings, the passengers gather for a safety lecture. It's not really a drill because they don't get into lifeboats or rafts that are then cast ...
(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - It isn’t often that an entire industry can be pegged to the creative drive of one person. But while there were “cruise ships” before Stanley McDonald took a small ...
(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - The Great Depression after the stock market crash of '29 didn't impact Ketchikan until three years later, but then Alaska's First City suffered the same fate as small ...
(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - This summer's announcement that a multi-ship cruise terminal is planned for the old Ketchikan Pulp Mill site in Ward Cove is a reminder of the important economic role the ...
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