Passengers whose ferry stories spanned the 50-year history the Alaska Marine Highway System shared them at a celebration on the Port Chilkoot Dock Sunday, where the ferry Malaspina tied up during a special commemorative docking.
The ferry system and the Malaspina were only a few months old when Dr. Stan Jones boarded the ship in early 1963 and came to Haines to take over the town’s lone medical practice. Jones was 31. The clinic was…