Tag: Fairbanks

“I want to be the witch, Mom!”

TURN RIGHT OUT OF of the three-story lighthouse, walk between the ice cream cones topped with cherries and pass beneath the candy canes, and one of the first things you see is Hansel and Gretel’s cabin complete with witch. This witch has a cutout where her face should be, so that people can have their…

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The northern lights were just an anticlimax

HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED what a puny little star Polaris is? If you didn’t have the Pointer Sisters on the Big Dipper steering you directly to it, you’d never find it. Except, of course, that it’s the only star that doesn’t move. Not to mention which it’s on the Alaska flag. I was standing outside…

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