The Forgotten First Schoolteacher in Kasilof

The Forgotten First Schoolteacher in Kasilof

AUTHOR’S NOTE: On Sept. 25, 2025, Brent Johnson, one of the most authoritative voices on the history of the Kasilof and Cohoe areas on the Kenai Peninsula, sent me screenshots from two 1929 Illinois newspaper articles. He appended to the attachments this note: “Prior to seeing these newspaper articles, I was pretty confident that Enid McLane was Kasilof’s first teacher and that the first school year was 1932-33. The school building McLane used w…