Project Jukebox

Digital Branch of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program

Documents

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1970 Seward Phoenix Log Article About Harding Icefield Crossing

An article in the Seward Phoenix Log newspaper (August 6, 1970, p. 1-2) about a Father Everett Wenrick and Sandy Wiswell crossing the Harding Icefield starting from Lowell Creek Canyon. Courtesy of the Kenai Fjords National Park Archives.

PDF icon 1970 Seward Phoenix Log article about crossing Harding Icefield Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park
1970 Snowmachine Tour Operation

An article titled "Harding Ice Cap Revisted_Again and Again," published in the Fish House News, Seward, Alaska, June 5, 1970 (Vol. 2, Issue 5), which is about the Seward Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors having their weekly meeting on Harding Icefield and enjoying the snowmachine tour operation run by Arley Zimmerman. Courtesy of the Kenai Fjords National Park Archives.

PDF icon A 1970 article that references the Zimmerman's snowmachine tour operation Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park
1971 Seward Phoenix Log Harding Icefield Article

An article in the Seward Phoenix Log newspaper (Feburary 18, 1971, p. 1) about the potential for future recreation development on Harding Icefield, and construction of a road to Exit Glacier. Courtesy of the Kenai Fjords National Park Archives.

PDF icon 1971 article in the Seward Phoenix Log about recreation development on Harding Icefield Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park
A Study of Traditional Activities in the Exit Glacier Area of Kenai Fjords National Park

A report titled A Study of Traditional Activities in the Exit Glacier Area of Kenai Fjords National Park about the variety of ways in which the Exit Glacier area has been used through time by Seward residents as discussed in the oral history interviews conducted for the Exit Glacier Project Jukebox. The report is by Douglas Deur, University of Washington - Pacific Northwest CESU, Karen Brewster, University of Alaska Fairbanks - Oral History Program, and Rachel Mason, National Park Service - Alaska Region, 2013. It was a collaborative research project carried out under Cooperative Agreement H8W07060001 between the National Park Service and University of Washington.

PDF icon Kenai Fjords_Exit Glacier report_ Final_9_18-13.pdf Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park
Article in 1930 Kueut Newsletter

An article in the Kueut Newsletter in 1930 about glaciers that mentions Seward and Exit Glacier. Courtesy of the Resurrection Bay Historical Society.

PDF icon Exit Glacier article in 1930 Kueut Newsletter Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park
Crossing the Harding Icefield

The article titled "Crossing the Harding Icefield" by J. Vin Hoeman (with photos by Dave Spencer and Bill Babcock) about their 1968 expedition traversing the Harding Icefield from Homer to Seward published in Alaska Magazine (May 1971, Vol. 37, Number 5, pp. 45-47 and 63). Courtesy of the Kenai Fjords National Park Archives.

PDF icon Hoeman_Crossing the Harding Icefield_1971.pdf Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park
Exit Glacier Poem

Poem about Exit Glacier written by Peggy Shumaker, 1994. From Wings Moist From The Other World, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.

PDF icon Exit Glacier Poem Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park
Map of Kenai Fjords National Park

Map of Kenai Fjords National Park available on Kenai Fjords National Park's website (http://www.nps.gov/kefj).

Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park
Traditional Activities in the Exit Glacier Area Poster

 

Poster about traditional activities in the Exit Glacier Area of Kenai Fjords based upon oral history interviews conducted for the Exit Glacier Project Jukebox. Created by Shannon Kovac, Cultural Resource Manager, Kenai Fjords National Park, for the National Park Service's 2011 Southwest Alaska Science Symposium.

PDF icon Alaska Science Symposium Poster Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park