cordova chronicles

2 min read 2022-06-04 22:00:00

Cordova Chronicles: A Day to Remember

Monday, May 30, 2022, was Memorial Day. At 8 a.m., over 30 Cordovans gathered at the local cemetery in early morning sunshine to watch the stars and

3 min read 2022-05-21 22:00:00

Another commercial fishing season is here, and the race is on to get those potentially lucrative “marker” sets. Back in the good old days, a

3 min read 2022-05-14 22:00:00

Orca Road, a two-and-a-half-mile paved byway that winds from Cordova to the Orca Adventure Lodge, was built in the early ‘60s to connect the city

3 min read 2022-05-07 22:00:00

With the tempo picking up all over town, one can tell another fishing season is right around the corner. The streets and intersections are filled

3 min read 2022-04-30 23:00:00

Spring is in the air, with contractors for the U.S. Forest Service and a crew from the Alaska Department of Transportation are taking advantage of

3 min read 2022-04-23 22:00:00

On March 27 of every year, I pause to ponder the impact of the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake on the Copper River Delta. Prior to the 9-foot uplift

2 min read 2022-04-15 22:00:00

How many chairlifts would you guess there are in the United States? Well, Peter Landsman, a lift supervisor at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, in

2 min read 2022-04-09 22:00:00

Cordovans are famous for their generous help to those in need. A recent PBS TV News Special Report described another group of small-town people that

3 min read 2022-04-02 21:30:00

At the end of Part II of this saga, we had made it back to the Alaganik landing from our cabin at Pete Dahl, only to discover the Copper River

2 min read 2022-03-26 22:00:00

Last week, in Part I of “Cruising down the river,” we left the Alaganik Landing in reverse at 5 mph, thanks to a balky outboard but at the

3 min read 2022-03-21 23:56:52

The Alaganik Landing road was built shortly after the 1964 Good Friday earthquake to provide tidal access to Alaganik Slough, which was now 9-feet

3 min read 2022-02-19 23:00:00

Mark Twain is credited with sending a lengthy letter to a colleague that ended with “If I had more time, I would have written less.” Yet less is

3 min read 2022-02-13 08:01:14

February 1971, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington. “So, when I was in Washington, it was my senior year of college, so I was

2 min read 2022-02-05 23:00:00

While local skiing and snowboarding enthusiasts have been enjoying another fine season on the slopes of the Mt. Eyak, work is already underway for a

2 min read 2022-01-29 23:00:00

Last week, I wrote about the Seward High Ponies defeating the University of Alaska by a score of 6-4 back in 1931, and explained why such a low score