Pratt Museum

Rowell is a 76-year-old former teacher and has lived in Alaska for nearly five decades. And for the past 25 years, she has volunteered as the guide for the Homer Harbor History Tour through the Pratt Museum.Even though she originally had no intention of living in Alaska, she said guiding the tour allows her to introduce tourists and locals to the place she has come to love.

This week Emilie Springer takes us back to a 1981 interview archived at the Pratt Museum about a Halibut Cove man who owned a sawmill in Portlock before…

This week commentator Emilie Springer shares with us a story of adventures on Beluga Slough from the 1930s, originally told by Tom Shelford to a Homer…

While perusing the Pratt Museum archives, Homer's Emilie Springer ran across a log handwritten in 1936 by a worker at the Snug Harbor Packing Company’s…

As we plan for a holiday season like no other, Homer’s Emilie Springer takes a look at some of the toys in the Pratt Museum’s collection that Homer…

This week commentator Emilie Springer looks through a collection of commercial fishing artifacts at the Pratt Museum, and shares what she discovered. KBBI…

The Pratt Museum 3779 Bartlett Street, HomerCredit Pratt MuseumEdit | RemoveWhat exactly is a seed library and how do you use one? This week on Sound…

What do water hemlock, thistle, gooseberries, and currants have in common? They can all be found growing in Alaska and are all referenced throughout…

Don’t let his age fool you. Carter Davis has been collecting insects, shells, and rocks for most of his life, and at 10 years old, is already an…

On this episode of the series, we hear from Anna McCarthy. Anna McCarthy was born and raised in Homer. Now she is bringing up her two daughters to have…