Just where is Pea Doll?
Ask any gill netter and they can tell you exactly where “pea doll” is. Ask a newcomer, and they may perhaps, justifiably, scratch their...
Baja Taco closes with considerable fanfare
Baja Taco, one of Cordova’s favorite eateries, closed for the year on Thursday, Sept. 28. It opened on April Fool’s Day, and for the...
A dog named Copper
Early in the days of our duck cabin at Pete Dahl, we had a dog we named Copper. The runt of a litter of...
A copious amount of rain
Rain.Let’s face it.If you have lived in Cordova for very long you are either part duck or you have come to accept it.Even though...
How not to make a duck pond
Duck hunters are known to go to great lengths to bag their wary prey. Probably the most infamous episode on the Copper River Delta of...
No water, no problem
I’ll never forget our first trip to our cabin site at Pete Dahl. Mainly because we didn’t get there. Back in 1958, Alaganik Slough was accessed...
Time and tide
Duck season is upon us, and river running skills will be put to the test as hunters navigate the many braided sloughs of the...
Eagle, Eagle, what are you going to do?
Watching eagles dive from tall trees across from our home on Odiak Slough to catch pink salmon exposed at low tide reminded me of...
Hughie Hosick’s legacy reaches all the way to Iceland
Investigating the legacy of Cordovans is full of surprises. Take Hughie Hosick, who gained fame operating the Steelhead tender for two decades on the challenging...
Gone is a famous tender
The renowned Steelhead is no more. Termed “the heart of the flats tender fleet’’ by longtime North Pacific Processors Cordova Plant Manager Ken Roemhildt, the...
