It was normal for Dr. John Fenger to receive phone calls when someone in Homer needed medical attention.
In the early days of formal medicine in Homer, doctors and dentists were often forced to improvise.
Alec Hardin MacDonald appeared in the census count as a resident of Takotna Village in Interior Alaska
John Floyd King disappeared from the record and Doc MacDonald came into being
‘A Thousand Cabbages and other poems’ sweeps across time and distance in Mullen’s second outing
Even now, with much more of the truth laid bare, mysteries remain
Dr. John A. Baughman also filed a lot of paperwork.
In the late 1990s, Michael Hankins and two of his pals were treasure hunting near Old Knik when they unearthed a surprise — an intact… Continue reading
I imagine my mother’s inability at this moment to truly understand the change her life is about to undergo.
Upon his release from prison in Lompoc, California, in March 1975, Stavenjord vowed to turn his life around and go straight.
Even the U.S. attorney himself promoted a sentence shorter than the maximum because of the youth of the three defendants.
When this part of the story begins, they have been behind bars for one year.
Perhaps for the first time they were realizing that they had made a series of questionable decisions
On Jan. 30, 1940, nearly eight months later, Dempsey, while on a road gang in a heavy fog, slipped away from the work detail.
Dempsey spent more than a decade attempting to persuade a judge to recommend him for executive clemency
The opening line of Dempsey’s first letter to Bunnell — dated March 19, 1926 — got right to the point
Prosecution lawyers were fortunate to have a fallback plan: witnesses to the crime.
The lines of history are most accurately understood in retrospect.
Although William Dempsey didn’t know it as he fled for his life, several things were working against him
AUTHOR’S NOTE: In the first three parts of this story, William Dempsey, who confessed to killing two Alaskans in 1919, escaped from prison in Washington… Continue reading
