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...missionary, he defended the Aleuts against the traders who exploited them. He ran a school and orphanage for the natives, among whom-even in his own lifetime-he was popularly regarded as a saint. Last week the Orthodox Church in America made it official. In richly traditional ceremonies on Kodiak Island in Alaska, "Herman the Wonderworker" was formally canonized...
Herman is the first American saint on the Orthodox calendar. He was also in the first group of Russian Orthodox clergy to come to Alaska in 1794, just two years after the Russian-American Company established a settlement on Kodiak. The canonization ceremonies, accordingly, were lavish: a three-hour liturgy climaxing four days of celebration. Nine Orthodox bishops, in jeweled crowns and brocaded robes, presided. Pilgrims from all over the U.S. jammed the tiny wooden church in Kodiak. At the end of the nighttime liturgy, St. Herman's wooden coffin was borne out of the church and around...
World War II changed the pattern. With the construction of big military bases at Dutch Harbor, Kodiak, Fairbanks and Anchorage, Alaska became more than a massive map sprinkled with names full of harsh ks and ts. Americans actually had to stay there. On Attu, they fought the second bloodiest battle of the Pacific war (549 American, 2,350 Japanese dead), and the only one on U.S. soil. Nor did peace close the bases. Because Alaska lay close to Russia, the Arctic shore soon sprouted heavily instrumented DEW line stations...
...across the nation that the volume of construction during the present decade will exceed everything built in America since the Revolutionary War. At the same time, more and more Americans are concerned that progress should not destroy America's heritage. From New Hampshire to Hawaii, New Orleans to Kodiak, Alaska, New York City to Ord, Neb., history hawks are fluttering against the wrecker's ball. Often their efforts are too little-but less and less are they too late...
Mountains on Kodiak Island and on the Kenai Peninsula near Anchorage subsided 7 ft. or more; the Kenai mountains moved laterally as much as 5 ft. In a 480-mile by 127-mile area off the Alaska coast, the ocean floor rose as much as 50 ft., the greatest quake uplift ever recorded. Near Valdez, Alaska, a slice of land 4,000 ft. by 600 ft. fell into...