Schooner Bend News Today

By most accounts, Charles “Windy” Wagner was an energetic, boisterous storyteller who entertained his listeners

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Former longtime Kenai resident Charles Wagner was a memorable character. After living for about a decade in Seward, he purchased a residence on the lower Kenai River and remained in the area for 30 years. In Part One, readers learned about Wagner’s fragmentary early history and his penchant for stretching the truth in the name of entertainment.

By the spring of 1931, a new two-story log building — the lodge’s third iteration — stood on the old site, ready for business

In late May 1959, officials from the Russian River Rendezvous, Alaska Sportsman’s Association, Inc., made a splashy official announcement in the Anchorage Daily Times