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This photograph shows hunter/trapper Warren Melville Nutter near the lake at the foot of what was almost certainly Skilak Glacier, circa late 1930s. (Photo courtesy of the Nutter Family Collection)

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Finding Mister Nutter — Part 5

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Warren Melville Nutter spent the final 32 years of his life on the Kenai Peninsula, working…

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Off the shelf: Memoir ponders life’s un-expectations

‘The Crane Wife’ is part of the Homer Public Library’s 2024 Lit Lineup

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Minister’s Message: Being able to hear God

We need to open our eyes, and listen deeply to how God is speaking to us

This photo of Warren Melville Nutter, holding a dead juvenile bald eagle that he shot for the bounty, appeared in the May 1938 edition of The Alaska Sportsman Magazine. The photo was probably taken near the mouth of Hidden Creek on Skilak Lake.

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Finding Mister Nutter — Part 4

Nutter had two trap-line cabins

These lean turkey burgers are juicy and flavorful and go great with salad and soda. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Twin dinner turkey burgers serve up birthday nostalgia

These lean burgers are juicy and flavorful and go great with salad and soda.

The cast of Intuition Salon’s shadow cast of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” rehearse in Kenai on Monday.

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‘Rocky Horror’ returns

Local actors to perform live during late-night screenings of classic film

This is a display of some of the hunting items that Warren Melville Nutter carried when he moved to Alaska in the summer of 1930. (Photo courtesy of the Nutter Family Collection)

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Finding Mister Nutter — Part 3

For the first 40 years of his life, most of Nutter’s experiences fit neatly into two categories: “Education”…

One frightening figure peers out from a doll house in the Haunted Chamber at the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center in Kenai, Alaska, on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Haunted Chamber reopens, offers free frights

The free community event started Friday and will run through Halloween

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Unhinged Alaska: The Beast

Then it went all Darth Vader.

Two young contestants hold their pumpkins at the City of Kenai’s 9th annual Fall Pumpkin Festival in Kenai, Alaska, on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024. (Photo by Jonas Oyoumick/Peninsula Clarion)

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Pumpkins make a splash at annual fall fest

There were hayrides, face painting and a pumpkin-decorating contest for the kids.

These Japanese-style souffle pancakes are sweet, light and delicate, and taste divine paired with tart cranberry sauce. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Aiming for the clouds

Delicate, fluffy Japanese-style souffle pancakes bring breakfast to a new level

Ian McEwen and Alyeska Garrett rehearse “Boeing Boeing” at the Kenai Performers’ Theater on Kalifornsky Beach Road, near Soldotna on Monday.

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Kenai Performers stage French farce ‘Boeing Boeing’

The light, wacky show centers on an airline pilot whose life begins to crack at the seams

Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

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Life in the Pedestrian Lane: It’s a rank choice

In a little more than three weeks we will be voting again for state and national legislators and…

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Minister’s Message: Experiments in faith

Here’s the experiment: resist the suspicion that prayer is just a bunch of empty religious talk

Gilbert Witt, pictured here in about 1930, was the troubled first husband of Muriel Grunert, who later married Warren Melville Nutter. (Public photo from ancestry.com)

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Finding Mister Nutter — Part 2

Warren Melville Nutter — known by many residents of the Kenai Peninsula as “William” or “Bill” — came…

This classic chicken salad is bright and tangy. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Afternoon chicken salad

This classic salad is bright and tangy, perfect for enjoying on a beach towel on the roof

Poster for the 2024 International Fly Fishing Film Festival. (Promotional image courtesy International Fly Fishing Film Festival)

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Fly fishing film fest set for Monday

The event will feature the familiar silent auction and Kenai River Brewing’s Two-Timing Trout Ale

Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion Artwork is displayed for silent auction at the Kenai Art Center on Thursday, Oct. 3.

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Kenai Art Center’s annual auction open through Oct. 25

The exhibition features an array of art across mediums donated by local artists

Pumpkins wait to be dropped from planes for the entertainment of people during Kenai Aviation’s Fifth Annual Pumpkin Drop at the Kenai Municipal Airport Operations Building in Kenai, Alaska, on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Costumes, pumpkins and seasonal scares

Peninsula packs October with Halloween events

In the Hope Cemetery, the grave marker for Warren Melville Nutter contains errors in his birth year and his age. The illustration, however, captures his adventurous spirit. (Photo courtesy of findagrave.com)

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Finding Mister Nutter — Part 1

It turned out that there were at least four other Nutters on the Kenai in the first half…