Orange County (Westminster)
By Blake Edwards
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WESTMINSTER - From his small wooden skiff on the mouth of the NakNek River, a 15-year-old Lewis W. Clapp could see out into the waters of Alaska's Bristol Bay. "I could tell it was going to be rough out there," he said. Gray clouds were building and stirring the bay's frigid waters.
Clapp's father had left five years earlier, and Clapp, the oldest of five children in a single-parent home, ... (continued)
