Scope and Contents It had 2 classrooms [and] 3 teachers. The small building to the right contained a generator that supplied electricity to the school and to the teacherage, a duplex which housed the teachers in a "bed sitter" apartment and a 2 bedroom apartment. The school also had a well, but no running water. The building was not earthquake proof and the roof leaked. This was the central focal point of the community. Grades 1 8. Until 1962 no one had gone to high school. That year the first group of...

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The Episcopalians in Cutoff and Huslia were by itinerant clergy. In 1954, Arlene Chatterton, a nurse evangelist with an Episcopalian organization known as the Church Army, was assigned to Huslia and this cabin was built for her. She was followed in the summer of 1956 by the Rev. Patterson Keller, who was then a deacon in the Episcopal Church and was the first resident Episcopal clergy person. He was ordained a priest in the community hall/church in 1957.

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In the background is the newly built Church of Good Shepherd (Episcopal) built the summer of 1960. Next to it is the two story rectory built in the summer of 1958 following the marriage of Father Keller to Connie Godfrey of Bennington, Vermont. Sidney Huntington (now of Galena) owned the house to the right of the rectory. The rectory very often functioned as a road house for visitors to Huslia. In the foreground a foot race is taking place on the school grounds.

Scope and Contents Spring 1961. The day of the dedication of the new church building. Bishop William J. Gordon, Jr., of Fairbanks dedicated the building. He now lives in Midland, Michigan. His wife Shirley is standing next to him. On her right is Mary Ann Munroe of Texas, who had come to Fairbanks to be with her cousin Judy Edwards who had been seriously burned in a tragic fire in Tanana that had killed Judy's husband, the Rev. Curtis Edwards, as well as their three children . (Judy later married the Rev. Bob...

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George was almost blind but still very proud and capable of running an excellent trap line in winter, fishing in summer, still handling his own dog team. Eliza was a remarkably tough able woman. She did wonderful beadwork and made the best parkas in town.

Scope and Contents Steven was gone, he worked as a river boat pilot for the river freighters all summer. Catherine was a daughter of Mary Vent, sister to Flora Huntington, Little Sophie Sam. The young man on the left was actually her uncle Jossilin Olin who lived with Steven and Catherine after his father, Olin the medicine man, died in 1960. Jossilin was a half brother to Mary Vent. The others are all Catherine and Steven's children. Catherine and Steven still live in Huslia. Steven has been school janitor...

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They were later divorced and I believe Shirley remarried Herbie Vent. George Jr. had already won several major dog races by 1962. Shirley was a daughter of Abraham Oldman of Hughes and is a sister to Eleanor Sam (wife of Wilson).

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Fred is a half brother of Jimmy and Sidney Huntington. Jacob, on the left in the sailor hat, was I believe, Edith's brother. He was not one of their children. Their daughter Lucy had been drowned the summer before and so Fred had stopped going to Hog River to work in the summer. He was a janitor at the school for years.

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Cue is Fred's son. Madeline was the daughter of Edward Bergman of Allakaket. Isabelle, the oldest child on the right, was not Cue's daughter. Their daughter Dolores had drowned the summer before while playing in the river with Lucy Bifelt and Barney [John] Sackett. Cue was also a very successful dog racer.

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Richard was of Russian descent. Angeline was a daughter of old Granma Happy and I believe aunt or half sister of Butch (George) and Patrick Yaska. Their oldest daughter Cecilia is not pictured.