The Winter Watchman's Daughter: Memoirs of Life on the Nushagak

While Alaskan salmon canneries often conjure up images of the hustling and bustling summer slime line, there's an often overlooked story of what happens in the off-season. In the words of the author's late Uncle Harlan Adkison, "The winter watchman puts the cannery to bed in the fall and wakes it up in the spring." Ella Nielsen lived more than half of her life in salmon canneries along Nushagak Bay, adjacent to Southwest Alaska's legendary Bristol Bay. She grew up the daughter of a winter w...