Koochiching Museums

It was August of 1962. They said it just simply couldn’t be done and no wonder they shook their heads as a deep sea-troller attempted to push a barge up the Tanana River to Fairbanks, Alaska. As fate would have it Orrah, Orrah Jr. and Tony had just finished helping Violet and Elnora load the barge to make the trip across the Gulf of Alaska and on the same day after two heart breaking years of attempting to keep their steamboat, barge and cruiser in shape for the final move Or

Orrah Jr. was holding a telegram in his hand, and Violet just knew “we had lost our beloved Frankie”, it read “Frank drowned on Harris Lake." Violet and Orrah were always going to write Frank a personal letter telling him how much they loved him and that they wanted the best for his happiness. According to Violet, Orrah cried again and again and saying “the letter that we never wrote” she iterated that they had written a lot of letters back and forth but they were to Floyd a