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Audio RecordingRenée Purpura interview conducted by Josh Wisniewski and Marissa Wilson, 2021-11-20 Renée Purpura (b. 1958) of Seldovia is a lifelong resident of the Kachemak Bay region of Lower Cook Inlet in Southcentral Alaska. She grew up in the community of Homer and moved to the south side of Kachemak Bay and off the road system in the late 1970s. Renée talks about her late husband Robert, their life afloat living on a small house boat,…- Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Wisniewski, Josh - Wilson, Marissa - Purpura, Renée
- Date: 2021
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Audio RecordingDave Seaman interview conducted by Josh Wisniewski, 2022-02-21 Dave Seaman (b. 1952) moved to Alaska with his family at age 10. Eventually, he moved down and settled on the southside of Kachemak Bay. In this interview, he talks about teaching himself to build boats, commercially fishing for salmon and halibut, running a salmon tender, owning the wooden fishing boat Marona; and the community of Little Tutka Bay, where he has been a…- Contributor: Seaman, Dave - Wisniewski, Josh - Occupational Folklife Project
- Date: 2022
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Audio RecordingWalt Sonen interview conducted by Josh Wisniewski, 2022-02-23 Walt Sonen was born in 1944 in Arlington, Virginia. He joined the Marines at age 17 and, after multiple tours in Japan, developed a deep interest in Japanese culture and spent a year living with and working for a Japanese fishing family in Hokkaido. He first started fishing in the Upper Cook Inlet Salmon fisheries and eventually settled in Seldovia. In this interview, he…- Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Wisniewski, Josh - Sonen, Walt
- Date: 2022
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Audio RecordingAlfred Quijance interview conducted by Josh Wisniewski and Marissa Wilson, 2022-02-09 Alfred Quijance (b. 1950), a fisherman and subsistence harvester, grew up in the remote Alutiiq/Sugpiaq-speaking community of Old Harbor on Kodiak Island. He learned traditional Native American seining and harvesting before working outside his community on larger boats, at a crab cannery, etc. He discusses differences between Native and non-Native approaches to the land; his experiences on different boats and with different captains; the…- Contributor: Wisniewski, Josh - Quijance, Alfred - Occupational Folklife Project - Wilson, Marissa
- Date: 2022
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