Family After All: Alaska's Jesse Lee Home, Unalaska, 1889-1925 (1)

The Jesse Lee story opens in the Aleutian Islands with the arrival of well-meaning 19th-century missionaries intent on delivering salvation and "civilization" to a proud people. Volume I tells of an institution founded in conflict and dissension that grew into a community admired by its neighbors and loved by many of its residents, mostly Native children from coastal Alaska. The Home operated in Unalaska for 35 years - years of heartache and hard work, hope and triumph - until in 1925 it was moved to Seward, where Volume II begins. Ray Hudson, author of the Aleutian memoir MOMENTS RIGHTLY PLACED has written of the Home's Unalaska years with empathy and grace.