Linda Mullan is interviewed by Janet Grosulak on December 2, 1991 in Kodiak, Alaska. She describes how her Irish grandfather came to Afognak on a whaling ship and married her grandmother, a native of Afognak. Her parents were both raised in Afognak, and she grew up there and in Kodiak. Her father served in the Army during WWII, driving a fire truck somewhere in the Aleutians. She talks about her youth in Afognak, bathing once a week in her grandmother's banya, stories told to children about "oolaks" (short, hairy, human-like creatures) and other scary tales, games, the school in Afognak, Red Cross boxes airdropped to the village at Christmastime, Edgecumbe Boarding School, Sheldon Jackson High School, the 1964 earthquake and tsunami, relocating Port Wakefield to Port Lions, social life in Afognak, shamans, public health care, groceries, getting bit by a dog and being taken by boat to Kodiak, her college experience (she became an LPN), and how Kodiak has changed over the years.