Snapshots at statehood : a focus on communities that became the Kenai Peninsula Borough

Summary: "This fascinating book deeply touches the lives and history of the individuals who have been a part in making Alaska what it was and has become since statehood. These articles are a 'who is and who was' on the Kenai Peninsula at that historic occasion. It touches on the lives and the formation of the several villages or areas, of the people who lived there and started the villages. Each has a separate but related history. Each has had an extraordinary frontier spirit that has made this area and this Alaska what is was and is. These stories tell the history of not only the villages but of the people who made history in the forming of each community. It's a valuable record for the understanding of ourselves: what we were and what we are ...."--foreword by Stan Thompson.