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Women pioneers talk early Alaska days

October 24, 2017 Deborah

Graduation held in an airport hangar, harrowing commutes to work across the tumultuous Cook Inlet, and mail dropped by airplanes overhead. While these may sound like situations of the far-off past, some Homer residents alive and well today are here to dispel that notion.

Women pioneers talk early Alaska days

AWN HistoryBarbara Perkins HillMairiis “Mossy” KilcherMarie Anderson WalkerPam Middleton Hooker

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