Steve Melchior: Treasured peninsula pioneer with a sketchy past

Steve Melchior: Treasured peninsula pioneer with a sketchy past

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Although I could not have written this series without the assistance of numerous individuals, I want to call particular attention to four of them: Gary Titus, who has for decades been gathering material on the denizens of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge; Jonathan Streicher, from Germany, who in 2019 emailed the Resurrection Bay Historical Society to ask for any information it might have about his great-great-uncle; Hermann Melc…