Colleen Nicholson talks with her friend Sally Riemer about downtown Petersburg in the 1940s.

Carli Loucks Byrer was in second grade when her family packed up and left Ceour d’Alene, Idaho to live and work at a logging camp in Rowan Bay on Kuiu Island, west of Petersburg.

Barry and Kathy Bracken talk about their lives in Alaska including Barry’s experience in the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964 and Kathy’s first year as a school teacher in Kake.

Kevin Kivisto talked with his mother, Irya Peterson, about her life in Michigan and Alaska and their family’s Finnish ancestry.

Carol Enge provided a home away from home for kids in her First Street house since the 1950’s.

Patty Simpson and her sister Irene Roundtree started their lives in Petersburg as Wasvicks. Five Daughters Hill in Petersburg is named after the five sisters in their family.

When Patti and Gloria went to apply for a loan to start their store “the Cache”, the banker was dubious.