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Night falls on the Daylight Kid — Part 2

“Bob,” he said, “that crazy fool is shooting at us.”

Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

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Life in the Pedestrian Lane: Spring Fever

“OK, Boomer” is supposed to be the current put down by the “woke generation”

Page from Seward daily gateway. (Alaska State Library, Archives and Museum, Juneau, A.K.)

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Night falls on the Daylight Kid — Part 1

Night Falls on the Daylight Kid—Part One By Clark Fair

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Minister’s Message: Spread love in these challenging times

I don’t know about you all, but the world feels pretty rough these days

Will Morrow (courtesy)

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Moving on

I suggested to my wife that we could replace the old kids’ car with something “fun”

On Oct. 3, 1945, the Spokane Chronicle published this A.P. photo of Miriam Mathers and her goats as she prepared to board a Seattle steamship bound for Seward.

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Tragedy and triumph of the Goat Woman — Part 4

Mathers had only three cents in her purse when she arrived in Kenai

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Minister’s Message: It’s all about love

Love is a daily, moment-by-moment action that we choose to be a part of or not.

Nick Varney

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Unhinged Alaska: The quiet serenity of spring. Not even.

It’s tough to teach a teenage female pup that everything that goes on around her is not all…

The Associated Press caught up to Miriam Mathers in 1943 and took this photo when she was trying to move overland to Alaska with her goats and other animals.

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Tragedy and triumph of the Goat Woman — Part 3

Her quest for Alaska had begun, but another date with tragedy lay just around the corner

In about 1904, the full family of Arthur and Ellen Davidson (front row) posed for this family portrait. Miriam Davidson, the third born, is in the dark blouse on the right end of the back row; she is standing next to her older siblings, Cora and William. (Photo courtesy of the David Family Collection)

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Tragedy and triumph of the Goat Woman — Part 2

Mathers was dead.

Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

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Life in the Pedestrian Lane: It’s in the news

There really is more going on in the world than the action in Ukraine

Better Homes & Gardens article photo, 1955 
Rusty Lancashire, who befriended her neighbor, Miriam Mathers, climbs into her vehicle in front of the Kenai Commercial Company store in Kenai.

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Tragedy and triumph of the Goat Woman — Part 1

Florence Lorraine “Rusty” Lancashire first met her neighbor, the old Goat Woman, in the fall of 1948

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Minister’s Message: Trophies of grace on display

The greatest “trophy” my life can live out, is to be a testimony of God’s grace working to…

Will Morrow (courtesy)

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Stay loose

As it turns out, muscles really do work better when they’re warm and loose

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Minister’s Message: Becoming stewards of attention

Maybe stewardship is a good way to think about our attention?

Nick Varney

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Unhinged Alaska: Here we go again …

If memory serves, the years leading up to 2008 inflation had quite a run

Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

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Life in the Pedestrian Lane: I love Western movies

Watching them now reminds me of when I was a kid going to movies and cheering on the…

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Minister’s Message: Face change with Grace

All of us must deal with change in this ever-changing world. It is inescapable.

Chester LeRoy Oughton was in his mid-60s and still serving a life sentence for first-degree murder in Alaska when these photos were taken at McNeil Island federal penitentiary in Washington in 1972. (Image courtesy of the National Archives in San Francisco)

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The Seward jailbreak of 1952 — Part 2

Prisoners Frank Charles Oliver and Chester LeRoy Oughton had been foiled in their attempt to reach the central…

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Minister’s Message: Overcoming impossible odds in Ukraine

From the Bible, we know that it is God who fights for us and wins battles