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Here's what Forte and I found this morning on our walk...   Cue the jaws music. It is a shark, about eight feet long. The blood is from the ravens and eagles picking on it. (It is quite dead.) Chip said, "can we eat the steaks?" and I said no. We think it may be a...

 Willa Cather wrote that winter hangs on too long in country towns-- "until it is stale and shabby,old and sullen." Which pretty sums up the mood around here, although yesterday's 29 degrees sure felt balmy. March makes me completely manic. One minute I'm sure I'll...

The good thing about having forty people over for dinner is that it makes you clean the house, and after all winter mine could use it. I mean, it looked okay, but a white glove test would not be good (it still won't) thanks to the wood stove, and to the glacier dust...

 At Roger Potter's funeral Saturday in the Port Chilkoot Bible Church we sang old fashioned hymns, "What a Friend we Have in Jesus," "I'll Fly Away," and of course, "Amazing Grace." (Read his obituary here.) But before the service started we listened to a recording of...

 From Rose Macaulay- "Only one hour in a the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with  a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning. "

In response some mail I've had, this is a note for folks from far away who are curious about Haines and the Gold Rush Alaska TV show. An article in last week's Chilkat Valley News sums up what's happening with the show, and us. The question is, will the all-American...