Bill and Lucy Lawrence and John Sackett Jr. (Barney), September 1962

Item — Box: PCA 303

Identifier: ASL-P303-26

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Lucy had been married to Jack Sackett, a white man who ran the trading post in Cutoff and Huslia. Lucy had some schooling, perhaps even high school. She could read and write and was a very capable storekeeper and post mistress. She married Bill probably in 1961. He was a white man she made contact with thru a "mail order" service of some sort. Lucy died of cancer several years ago. Barney [John Sackett] has been active politically in Alaska I understand. Lucy was a sister of Bobby and Willy Vent.

Dates

September 1962

Biographical / Historical

Slides #15 – 38 are of family groups around Huslia in September of 1962. The young people who were the first group of students to go to high school were getting ready to leave town and we wanted pictures of them with their families so everyone could have a copy of the photos. This was a very traumatic as well as exciting time for the families. Life would never be the same for any of them and they knew it. It was a time of mourning for many parents. I have arranged the families alphabetically as the most useful way to organize them.