Christy Fox-Allen was interviewed by Anjuli Grantham on July 8, 2015, at Gull Light, Uganik Bay, Alaska, as part of the West Side Stories project by the Kodiak Historical Society. Christy was born July 7, 1952, in Seattle, Washington, where she went to high school and college, but spent every summer living in Uganik Bay.

David Little was interviewed by Anjuli Grantham on June 19, 2015, at Surf City in Uganik Bay, Alaska, as part of the Kodiak Historical Society’s West Side Stories project. David Little was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1952 but was brought up in Southern California, moving to Alaska at the age of 29. He quit a career as a research psychologist at the Department of Defense and, through various personal encounters, worked in a cannery in Anchorage and then Kodiak and fell into the area’s setting community, buying his first permit with his wife Lisa in 1985.

Dianne Herman was interviewed by Anjuli Grantham on June 22, 2015, in Village Islands, Uganik Bay, Alaska, as part of the Kodiak Historical Society’s West Side Stories project. Dianne was born in Michigan in 1945, and after studying and traveling for a number of years, moved to Alaska in 1976 seeking adventure and wilderness. She wound up in Kodiak and began beach seining with locals at Packers Spit.

Jeanne Shepherd was interviewed by Anjuli Grantham on June 20, 2015, at Uganik Bay, Alaska, as part of the Kodiak Historical Society’s West Side Stories project. Jeanne was born in 1955 in Seattle but moved to Kodiak in 1978. She describes the heady times at the tail end of big-money fisheries in the area and beginning a career of fishing after one summer in a cannery. She describes many memorable village characters and her love of a lifestyle of subsistence and self-sufficiency.

Tollef Monson was interviewed by Anjuli Grantham in Uganik Bay, Alaska, on June 19, 2015 as part of the Kodiak Historical Society’s West Side Stories project. Tollef was born in Minneapolis, in 1979 and moved to Alaska at the age of 20 for a winter job handling sled dogs, and soon began seasonal fishing on the west side of Kodiak. He describes the work ethic that was instilled in him by locals and the working in Kodiak as a style of life different from a job, and his decision to buy a site in 2007.