Saturday, October 8, 2022
#4 - Pre-YOL "76
It wasn't long before everyone who had something to do was doing it and the one who had nothing specific to do was doing things he had not done before. With the sun never setting at this season of the year the working ones would pull the room-darkening curtains and would get their sleep. Don,...
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#3 - Utkiagvik AKA Barrow, Alaska (Pre-YOL '76)
"Top of the World, Ma." "Land of the Midnight Sun" The grand move had been made and everyone was busy about working in some way except Don. He was still "exploring". The four missionary helpers were about what they had come for. Claire had applied for a teaching position in the Barrow School and was...
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Friday, October 7, 2022
#2 -- Pre-YOL '76
It all began with a divorce, at least for Claire. It had been in the works for some time for her married daughter and her daughter's husband, his brother, and their father. All three of these fellows were ministers and workers with missionaries of the Southern Baptist Convention. The four of them...
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In The Year of Our Lord 1976...
A little Inuit/Eskimo baby, around a year old, with eyes as black as coals, shining straight black hair, darling little round inquisitive face, dressed in the Eskimo native fashion and with tiny little beaded mukluks on her feet was brought into my living room by my friend who I was expecting,...
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Wednesday, October 5, 2022
The Hidden Bump
One hundred and sixteen years ago today, one of the storks kept in her cellar flew the coop and took a new tiny red-faced squalling baby girl to the home of Mary and Josef Jelinek. Teta Otersky, the midwife, had to move quickly to catch up with her stork, but all turned out well. This was reported...
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