Chilkat Valley Preschool students and siblings with pumpkins they carved during a get-together with parents.

Oct. 27, 1969

Folk songs will ring out from the Chilkat Center Saturday night when Evelyne and Bob Beers, nationally-known performers, bring their voices and instruments to Haines-Port Chilkoot in the second concert of the 1969-70 Alaska Music Trail.

The Beers family folk-odyssey goes back to the time of the American Revolutionary War when Bob’s great, great, great grandmother migrated…