Larry and Pamiuq; word of season's first bowhead reaches Wainwright

I now go back to the day I arrived here, before the wedding of

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With Jesus looking over her shoulder and a pistol on her hip, Alice climbs onto her snow machine and drives off toward Barrow

This is Alice Drake, who gave her cousin Jason and his bride

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Wainwright, Alaska: wedding of Jason and Iqaluk - honeymoon on ice

I begin with the usual disclaimer - the one I make whenever I post a wedding on this

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Last night, I took an unexpected, lightning-fast trip through every village of the Arctic Slope at Facebook speed: how it happened

First, to my Facebook friends who expressed astonishment at how rapidly I visited every single village on the

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Logbook entry: Transition from Wainwright to Atqasuk to Barrow to Fairbanks to Anchorage to Wasilla - footprints on the airplane window - lights dance outside the jet window - happy cat

Just before closing the door and taking his seat behind the

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