Photo: Downtown Ketchikan Alaska in May, 2002. CREDIT Robert A. Estremo, copyright 2002. SOURCE Wikipedia (License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)

From Sit.News

By DAVE KIFFER

December 12, 2012
Wednesday AM

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. . . “Most of Ketchikan’s early residents were boomers and builders who left few journals or letters behind. But one family, the Hunt family, left behind a treasure trove of early photographs of the growing community.” . . .

. . . “Forest Hunt, who brought his family to Ketchikan before the town incorporated in 1900, also left a firsthand account of the early days in the form of a radio address that he gave on KGBU, Ketchikan’s first radio station in 1930>” . . . Read Complete Report w/photos