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Hey guys!
It’s me, Chisel Triezenberg. I have returned from the depths of the newspaper archives to bring you this newsletter.
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I picked the article on intestine art for two reasons: it’s impossible to flip past “intestine artist,” and the circumstances surrounding said intestine artist’s 2016 exhibit are really interesting.
I haven’t heard much about the fate of the swim team, so I wanted to get everyone thinking about it. I had just read my colleague Will Steinfeld’s article on the golf course, so I’ve been interested in the history of golf in Haines.
Then, as I dug further back, the only remotely interesting article from forty years ago is about the sale of a bankrupt mill (must’ve been a slow news day). And, the story I selected from fifty years ago was, again, just the only one interesting enough to make the cut.
Finally, school’s starting soon as it was sixty years ago. Better get your preschoolers enrolled!
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The Chilkat Valley News began publishing in 1966, so we feature stories from the small portion of this valley's history that we have documented in the archives. If you have something you'd like to see featured, let us know.
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 | Artist Lyn Fabio stands beside a parka she fashioned out of pig intestine. (File photo/Chilkat Valley News) |
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10 Years Ago (August 4, 2016)
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For months, the Haines Sheldon Museum has been working to get Whitehorse artist Lyn Fabio’s artwork into the country.
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Fabio’s pieces are primarily made from pig intestine, though she also incorporates moose and caribou antler, porcupine quills, seeds and other natural materials.
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Since January, museum staff has been in communication with border representatives about how to legally transport Fabio’s pieces across the border for her show “terra/mare,” which opens 5 p.m. Friday.
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Museum community coordinator Madeline Witek said talks of itemized letters, import bonds, export licenses, customs brokers and other red tape almost canceled the show.
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Finally, the bureaucratic details were smoothed out, and Fabio was setting up her show Wednesday afternoon in the Elisabeth Hakkinen Gallery.
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Fabio was introduced to traditional gut work in 1989, at a show in Juneau called “Inner Skins/Outer Skins,” exhibiting traditional and contemporary work with seal and walrus intestine.
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Fascinated by the material’s translucence and “magical” quality, Fabio went back to Whitehorse and decided she needed to find a way to work with gut. Seal and walrus intestine isn’t readily available in the Yukon, so she started using a similar substance: pig intestines, which she buys wholesale in the form of sausage casings.
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Thinner than traditional seal and walrus intestine, a single layer of dried hog gut feels like a cross between tissue paper and fine silk. Fabio layers and molds the gut to create vessels, parkas, quilt-like hangings and other sculptures.
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20 Years Ago (August 3, 2006)
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A $3,500 from the Wythe Dornan and Brian A. Douglas Memorial Fund will bolster the Haines Dolphins swim team this fall.
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The money will go towards general team expenses and might be used to hire a second assistant coach, said secretary/treasurer Suzanne Vuillet-Smith, who wrote the grant.
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“Two assistants allow (swimmers) more concentrated time with the coach,” said head coach Steve Vick, who’s worked as a volunteer to lead early-morning workouts during June and July.
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Assistant coach RaeAnne Galasso has resigned her post as assistant coach to focus on her full-time job as pool manager.
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The team is advertising for an assistant coach to begin work when the official season starts in late August.
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In this 2006 photo, a large, unidentified bird walks along the beach. (File photo/Chilkat Valley News)
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30 Years Ago (August 8, 1996)
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Course records tumbled last weekend as the 11th annual Weeping Trout Golf Tournament came to an exciting finish at a newly upgraded sports resort on Chilkat Lake.
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But the tournament, once the only tourism-related aspect of the waterfront property owned by the Kiana Corp., now figures to be just one part of an overall business venture for the 20-acre Weeping Trout Sports Resort.
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With overnight lodging for 15, owner Debra Schnabel hopes to draw a mix of golfers, fishermen and tourists seeking a remote experience in Alaska, at a location not accessible by road.
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Although there are two other lodges in the lake, Schnabel’s is the only one with a golf course - indeed, it has the only full-fledged, nine hole golf course in the Haines Borough. Aside from an annual tournament, the resort last month received its first overnight lodgers.
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“Up until now, it’s a labor of love,” Schnabel said. “It’s a ‘build-and-they-will-come’ issue.”
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For now, there is no specific marketing plan for Weeping Trout.
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But the golf course, landscaped over more than a decade, won rave word-of-mouth reviews from tournament participants last weekend.
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“It reminds me of those courses I see in Glenlivet ads - like over in Scotland and in Ireland,” Said tournament veteran Steve Williams. “It’s got the real roughness, and it’s part of the game… the improvement from year one to year 11 is amazing. I mean, you look at some photos from year one, you look at some photos from year one, you had a tiny little green here; three holes was the total amount of holes we played.”
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Golfers tee off from a floating dock during the annual Weeping Trout Golf Tournament. (File photo/Chilkat Valley News)
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40 Years Ago (August 7, 1986)
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The Alaska Resources Corp. is running behind schedule in its plan to place the defunct Pacific Forest Products Mill on the market for prospective buyers.
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Marty Lentz, executive director of ARC, said the marketing plan is still being shaped with the corporation’s attorneys to cover “all the complexities” such as air and water quality rights. ARC gained control of the mill in June and had hoped to put it on the market in July. But that plan was delayed until after the timber rights auction in mid-July, which also went to ARC, the mill’s biggest creditor after the mill filed for bankruptcy in 1984.
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An official with Mitkof Lumber in Petersburg said this week that Mitkof and ARC have had several discussions about the possible purchase of the mill, but they are still in the early stages of discussion and no prices have been discussed.
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| This advertisement from 1986 shows that prices for everything were lower than they are today. (File graphic/Chilkat Valley News) |
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50 Years Ago (July 24, 1975)
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At a board of directors meeting held at Klukwan on July 16, 1975, Irene Rowan, president of Klukwan Inc., reported that legislation is pending in the U.S. Congress to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
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In 1957, Congress gave Chilkat Indian Village authority to lease the iron ore deposits located underneath the reserve lands. By a 1959 amendment to its bylaws, the village, which is an Indian Reorganization Act corporation, provided that only residents of Klukwan could participate in the corporation.
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Pursuant to the 1971 Native Claims Act, 253 people designated Klukwan as their place of enrollment, but only approximately 90 actually resided in Klukwan.
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In an election held in December of 1973, those enrolled in Klukwan voted to retain the 892.208 acres of reserve lands including the subsurface rights. In 1974 that land was patented Klukwan, Inc., the Native village corporation organized pursuant to the terms of the land claims act.
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It was not until 1975 that two facts became apparent: first, that Chilkat Indian village had a constitutional right to the iron ore which was virtually the sole asset allegedly deeded to Klukwan, Inc., and secondly, that some 160 Klukwan enrollees were thereby excluded from participation in any benefits.
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| An unidentified pedestrian walks on Main Street in the 1970s version of Haines. (File photo/ Chilkat Valley News) |
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60 Years Ago (August 13, 1966)
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Registration for new students entering kindergarten and high school will take place Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, August 27, 28, and 29. High school students who were at another school last year and did not pre-enroll last spring should be at the school on any of the three registration days from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Parents of kindergarten youngsters should be at the school during the same hours, and should bring proof of their children’s age.
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Ward said that school will begin Tuesday, September 3, at 8:40 a.m., and the first day will dismiss at noon.
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Buses will make the same scheduled runs as last year.
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| This giant graphic took up a lot of space on the front page of the January 1966 edition. (File photo/Chilkat Valley News) |
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