Cathy Sherman
Cathy Sherman is a volunteer historian and recently-retired director of the Cordova library and Historical Museum. Sherman has been contributing to The Cordova Times for over a decade.
Museum Memories
Winter proved frustrating, hazardous and even deadly for railroad workers building the Copper River and Northwestern Railway. Two days after this photo was taken...
Find book club favorites from 2018 right in Cordova
The Cordova Public Library staff works hard to keep the freshest batch of good reads on our shelves for you, especially during these dark...
Museum Memories
The Museum receives numerous requests for research of one type or another throughout the year and one we recently filled was regarding the major...
Museum Memories
In May 1909, Cordova was beginning to really change. According to the Cordova Daily Alaskan, “… Messers, Heney and Hawkins, who arrived yesterday, took...
New York Times top 10 books for 2018 at your library
The Cordova Public Library staff works hard to keep the freshest batch of good reads on our shelves, especially during these dark months of...
Museum Memories
Cutting a swath through a winter’s deposit of snow is one of the four rotary snowplows that earned their keep for the Copper River...
Museum Memories
Talk about a rainy season! In October 1925 precipitation records came tumbling down and so did houses! On Oct. 12, 1925 the W.H. Liebe...
Great new books are on the shelves
The Cordova Public Library staff works hard to keep the freshest batch of good reads on our shelves for you. Debbie Carlson manages our...
Museum Memories
Cordova’s neighboring community of Chitina was frozen in at some cold temperatures a few moons ago, but the bitter chill was influencing many portions...
Museum Memories
In May of 1912, the barge called Haydn Brown was entering Prince William Sound with eight on board and being towed by the tug,...
