Our roots run deep in Loring. For over 100 years our family has been apart of Lorings past, present and future. We are proud of our native pioneer heritage! We have created this website to share with you the history of our remote village on Naha Bay. We feature a unique place to stay should you come to Loring.

D. Stacks Beachcomb Inn hostess Dolores Stack Cogswell is a descendant from Loring's early pioneer family. Her grandfather Richard Stack Sr, an Irishman from Oakland California, came to work in the cannery in 1890. He soon met and married Mariah Stewart, a Tsimshian native from Metlakatla Alaska. In 1892 the couple made the cannery village their permanent home. Dolores's father, Thomas E. Stack Sr is the youngest child of Richard and Mariah Stack. He was born in Loring around the turn of the century when Alaska's biggest salmon cannery was in full operation. Grandpa Tom always had wonderful stories to tell of Loring's cannery days.
Dolores' mother Florence C. (Ebana) Stack was originally from the interior of Alaska. Florence's mother a full Athabascan, died at a young age. Cosequentially, Florence was placed in an orphange in Holy Cross Alaska and was raised by the French Canandian nuns. Florence came to Southeast Alaska in 1938 and met Thomas Stack Sr. in Metlakatala Alaska. They married in Ketchikan Alaska in 1940 and had 5 children. They continued the tradition and maintained a home in Loring while raising their family.
Today, Loring is still home family members of the Stack family. Each July we have a Stack Family Reunion Potlatch where we celebrate our roots and heritage. Complete with fireworks over Naha Bay! `