Cathy Sherman
Cathy Sherman is a City Council member, volunteer historian, and retired director of the Cordova library and Historical Museum. Sherman has been contributing to The Cordova Times for over a decade.
Mile 7 Memories
At the Mile 7 Naval Radio Station throughout the 1920s improvements were made to the infrastructure support systems established in 1917. This included the...
Naval radio history, part IV
Let’s finish up our Naval Radio Station history this month by focusing on Eyak Station, which became important to the Navy as a distant...
Naval radio history, part III
In 1917, another naval radio site was selected at Mile 14 on the Copper River and Northwestern Railway. A little over 9,000 acres was...
Naval radio history, part II
Welcome back to our series on the naval presence in our area, specifically the radio stations that connected Alaska to the Lower 48. The...
Naval radio station history
The Cordova Historical Museum was recently asked about the history of the Naval radio stations in our area. It’s always fun to share the...
Cordova’s Cookin’
All the talk of clams over the last few weeks had me digging through my cookbook shelf perusing recipes for the delectable bivalve. I...
Cordova’s clams
Cordova — clam capital of the world! What did Cordovans do with all those relatively easy-to-harvest razor clams in the 20s and 30s? Remember...
Cordova Clamming History
Continuing on with some clamming history: The first two Cordova plants prepared a total pack of 11,176 standard cases of 48 ten-ounce cans, thus...
Happy (and tasty) as a Cordova clam!
A little razor clam history this week along with our boat photos! The razor clam was first described in 1788 from specimens found near...
Vessels from the days of yore
Here is a collection of some beautiful fishing vessels from our past. While the location is difficult to determine, names are visible on most...
