Roy Jones is setting up his easel around town, selling original landscape paintings to help pay his way back home to Albuquerque, N.M. Roy says he suffers some physical disabilities and a degenerative brain injury he calls “living dementia.” He came to Alaska for a summer job that didn’t work out.

Tamari, brown sugar, and butter made up the marinade on 700 pounds of sockeye served at the annual Fisherman’s Barbecue on June 17. Grillmaster Larry…