About Wilma Williams

Wilma Williams was just a baby when her parents, Tom and Nita Shelford, came to Alaska to start a new life. In the seven decades since then, she has known heartache and happiness, joy and despair. Through it all, she has kept a keen sense of survival and an even keener sense of humor.

Her Life in Homer

Find out what it was like to live in Homer before there was a road to connect it to the outside world and what it was like to grow up on the edge of the Last Frontier.