Mary Richards Sarvela talks about coming to Sitka in 1940, spending the war years in Anchorage, Whittier, Fairbanks, and Candle, returning to Sitka in 1946, her experiences in Candle, Jim Robbins, her husband, Territorial Commissioner Frank Richards, Sitka Dan Molner, Eric Olsen buying the Tuengel homestead, Richard Nelson's house which was owned by Hodges (part of the Mills family), Waldo Mills, Maye Mills, Myhr and Rudy Sarvela's homestead, Willard Osbakken, Joe Ashby, Ball Shannon, Hopewell Rands wrote book, The Roadhouse, prostitution, Shotgun Alley, Anchorage in the 1940s, Frank Reed, Dan Coffey, John Townsend, Art Franklin, Frances Redman, Turney Burkhart, dairy--owned by Rice then Freddy and John Van Horn, Sarvela homestead, Rudy Sarvela dies at age 92, Sawmill Creek Road conditions, Calvin family, Sarvela garage, Ruth Hodges--C. J. Mills' daughter--lived in Dick Nelson's, photos of Anchorage, Ray Peterson, photos of Candle, Tessie Gregg (1944-1945), and Sitka photos.