'Memories Of A Much Simpler
Life'
Clover Pass School kids: back row, left to right: Muriel Smith,
Bruce Lemke, Gerald Lemke, Kenny Hilbert, Miss Nelson, Marian
Woolery, Barbara Hilbert;
front row, left to right: Ken Kiffer, Rodney Johnson, Jerry Kiffer,
Betty Murley, JoAnne Lemke, Snapper Carson, Sharon Lemke.
Photo courtesy of Snapper Carson.
Old Clover Pass School Stirs Memories Of A Much
Simpler Life
By Louise Brinck Harrington
Just a short photo-type story
about Clover Pass School - that's how this article started out.
Just put together a few "then-and-now" photos plus
a few memories from former students, add it all together and-bingo-an
article.
A good idea but it didn't work
that way.
It started back in August when
Historic Ketchikan, a local nonprofit group, held a work party
to clean up and perform minor repairs around the school. That's
when some former students showed up, shared a few memories and
things spiraled from there. And the "short photo-type story"
grew longer and longer and now, well, someday soon someone will
have to write a book!
Built in 1947 the school still
stands in its original location on Potter Road-a small white
wooden structure that looks weathered and worn after years of
wear. Yet former students say they have fond memories of the
place, memories that go back to the 1940s and 50s when people
worked hard and pulled together for the good of the community.
It was a time of simple living, before the modern conveniences
(distractions, more like?) of electricity or telephones or television.
- Read
the rest of this story by Louise Brinck Harrington...
Monday - November 08, 2004
Alaska: SEALASKA
Heritage Launches Language Resources Project - Sealaska Heritage
Institute (SHI) has launched an online project to share Native
language tools with language students and teachers.
The language resources project
so far includes the Tlingit alphabet, a Tlingit phrase of the
week section and a children's book written in Tlingit called
Salmon Boy, recently produced by SHI and posted in a printable
form.
The alphabet and Tlingit phrases
may be read on the web and also heard by clicking on them. The
alphabet section includes audio of sounds plus words that incorporate
the sounds.
"Because Tlingit sounds
are complicated and difficult to make, students need to hear
the sounds many times before they can produce them," said
Dr. Rosita Worl, SHI president. "The institute's online
Tlingit alphabet gives students easy access to the sounds as
many times as they need to hear them." - More...
Monday - November 08, 2004
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