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It’s me, Chisel Triezenberg, and I have yet another newsletter about history. I hope you aren’t getting bored yet.
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I, and many other kids, have fond childhood memories of playing around in the museum’s children’s room: here’s how it started. There are many stereotypes about Alaskans, and a book about cooking on glaciers is certainly not helping. Good book, though. More boat harbor news! Everyone’s favorite topic is here to jumpscare you in the middle of a newsletter. Not enough attention is ever being paid to the foster families issue, but we did publish an article about it 40 years ago. Lynn Canal Community Players hosted a meeting around 50 years ago. Finally, there are over 10 times the normal levels of bacteria in the water, but it’s still “probably low enough to not cause problems.”
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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10 Years Ago (Sept. 15, 2016)
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Local kids will soon be able to learn about the Chilkat Valley and play in the Sheldon Museum’s new children’s room, set to open in early October.
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The museum will also host a lineup of interactive programs to teach regional and cultural history in the hopes of educating more local families.
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The children’s room, which used to house some of the Museum’s archives, is being transformed to look like the Chilkat Valley.
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Haines High school students Alexandria Habra and Aurora Alten-Huber and museum assistant Aly Zeiger glued small pieces of blue and brown paper to the floor to create a mosaic-like portrayal of the Chilkat River, which will be varnished over to protect against foot traffic.
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Museum director Helen Alten said the room will feature a “fish camp” play area with a play smokehouse and blueberry bushes for picking. There will also be a boat, a model clan house, a historic map of Haines, a round table and chairs for activities, a puppet theater, doll house, various educational toys, and possible murals of the region’s mountains and ocean.
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Teenagers who will participate in the museum’s junior curator program this fall will add artwork to the walls and create trees to look like local alders.
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(File photo/Chilkat Valley News)
This Sept. 15, 2016 file photo shows the wreckage of a hangar at the Haines Airport . Winds the same day reached more than 30 miles per hour. |
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20 Years Ago (Sept. 14, 2006)
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Haines preschool aide and artist Karen Bryant shares stories of her summer work as a camp cook atop a Skagway glacier in a new book, “Dog Camp - a Short Account of Living and Cooking on an Alaska Glacier.”
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Bryant created the homegrown project from start to finish, from text and original recipes to pen-and-ink drawings that highlight the spiral-bound publication produced at King’s Store.
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The 72-page book chronicles a season atop the icefields near Denver Glacier where Bryant has worked six summers feeding dog-mushing guides and visitors to Alaska Icefield Expeditions, owned and operated by Dan and Chris Turner of Haines.
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“And all those furry athletes have personalities - they have good days, bad days and their own social agendas,” Bryant writes.
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Glacial cooking offers unique challenges but also unique rewards, Bryant recounts through tales interspersed with recipes.
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“Helicopters landing and taking off directly behind the kitchen create winds that regularly blow out the stoves and noise that suspends conversation. Condensation drips from the roof. Water does not pour out of taps - hot or cold. Dishes are washed the old fashioned way, in dishpans - by hand. There is no plumbing,” Bryant writes. I cannot think of another kitchen I would rather cook in.”
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| (File photo/Chilkat Valley News) In this Sept. 14, 2006, file photo a fisherman uses the boat harbor crane to move a load of chum salmon into his truck. |
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30 Years Ago (Sept. 12, 1996)
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City mayor Greg Combs is asking borough mayor Jerry Lapp to share $250,000 in federal disaster funds so that the city can work on improvements to the Small Boat Harbor.
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The money could be used for expansion of parking and installation of restrooms, a project estimated at about $500,000, Combs said.
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“Although $250,000 will not be enough to complete the project, combining it with city funds and using the total amount to leverage grant funds, it would go a long way toward the modernization and expansion of our Small Boat Harbor,” he said in a letter to Lapp.
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The borough recently received $550,000 as the first of four annual payments in compensation for restrictions on logging in the Tongass National Forest.
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The congressional act appropriating the money does not state how it must be spent.
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"I still think people don’t understand what the money is for,” Lapp said, noting that the money is intended to compensate the borough for lost stumpage receipts.
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He has supported putting the money in the borough’s permanent fund, although no action has been taken. A public hearing will be held in October or November, he said.
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The city’s harbor advisory committee will discuss improvements at its meeting, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
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(File photo/Chilkat Valley News)
In this Sept. 12, 1996 file photo a boom truck slipped out of gear and rolled down the street, becoming airborne after it crashed into an anchored log. |
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40 Years Ago (Sept. 11, 1986)
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Superman was a foster child!
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This is the theme being repeated this month as the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services and Tlingit-Haida Central Council and the Alaska Foster Parents Association recruits for foster homes.
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In Southeast, 136 families care for 247 children from Yakutat to Metlakatla. Children are placed in the care of the Division of Family and Youth Services by the courts and the division reports that more homes are needed.
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Foster families can be single parents as well as older parents whose children have left home. They need not have their own homes and can range from a cabin to a boat, as long as the home is safe and allows the child some privacy. Homes must be licensed and inspected for safety features, including smoke alarms and fire extinguishers, which are required.
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Foster parents receive a monthly allowance to cover food and medical costs. The allowance varies, according to the subject’s needs, and is not subject to federal income tax.
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(File advertisement/Chilkat Valley News)
In this Sept. 11, 1986 file advertisement, a balloon popping sale is on order. I’ve never heard of a balloon popping sale, but refreshments and scarily loud noises sound like a great combination. |
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50 Years Ago (Aug. 31, 1973)
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A get-together of all persons interested in the arts has been set by the Lynn Canal Community Players for Saturday evening, at 8 o’clock in the Chilkat Center.
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Purpose of the meeting will be to brief LCCP delegates to the meeting of the Southeast Alaska Regional Arts Council in Petersburg in early October.
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People interested in dance, music, drama, graphic arts, film, photography and literature are invited to attend and share their ideas of how best the Southeast Arts Council can be of service.
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In addition to sponsoring the meeting, LCCP began to shape plans for the year by electing a new board of directors. Mimi Gregg is president, Ray Menaker is vice president, Nancy VanHoesen is secretary and Jim Nelson is treasurer. Ted Gregg, Neal King and Maisie Jones round out the board.
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A concert series is planned, with soprano Corinne Swall, “The Nightingale of the Gold Rush Days,” as the first offering Sept. 28. The following day the 30-piece Arctic Chamber Orchestra, directed by Gordon Wright and with Jean-Paul Billaud as piano soloist, will perform.
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Although there will be more concerts this year, season tickets will be at last year’s prices; they will be on sale shortly.
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| (File photo/Chilkat Valley News) In this Aug. 31, 1973 file photo someone apparently didn’t like one shopkeeper’s efforts to beautify Main Street, so they ripped out a row of planted flowers. |
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60 Years Ago (Sept. 5, 1966)
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The Haines municipal water system will be inspected tomorrow when two state officials will come to town to try to determine what caused the bacteria count to rise from a normal of 3 to a recent count of 38.
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According to Councilman Henry Hartmann, John Scribner, state sanitary engineer, and Wiliam G. Goodman, regional supervisor of environmental health, will assist the city to locate the problem and solve it.
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The city was informed by letter and telephone that the water contamination was determined from water samples sent to Juneau by the city. While the bacterial content is probably low enough to not cause problems for healthy people, Hartmann said, invalids and tiny youngsters might be affected.
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Notices were sent out Friday by TV and word of mouth to boil water until further notice, or purify it by chlorination. At the school, drinking fountains were turned off and students drank chlorinated water from cups.
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The Haines water system has a chlorinator, but it cannot be made to operate successfully. Attempts will be made to operate an emergency chlorinator until a permanent one can be set up.
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| (File photo/Chilkat Valley News) In this Sept. 5, 1996 file photo the new school building is nearing completion with workers having just finished tarring the roof. |
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