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...York's blizzard, most of the Yukon was enjoying crisp, sunny weather, and an inch or two of dry powdered snow merely lent a seasonable Christmas decor to the streets of Whitehorse and Dawson. The town thermometer outside the famous Whitehorse Inn has rarely dropped below zero this winter...
...remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a handbarrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail jailing over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the saber cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards...
Palo & Piñata. This week, as always, the highlight of each posada (literally, an inn) was the breaking of the piñata, a big clay pot. The piñata, filled with presents and decorated with gay streamers, was hung from the ceiling. One by one guests were blindfolded, spun around, and allowed to crack at the pinata with a palo (stick). Usually they missed. Then the smallest child was allowed to split it open, whereupon everyone dived for the shower of candies, fruits and toys...
...September night in 1931, a doe-eyed young woman in a green evening dress, bored with a gay party at Honolulu's Aia Wai Inn, wandered outside and along John Ena Road. She was the wife of a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, and her name was Thalia Massie...
...Greatest Story Ever Told (Sun. 6:30 p.m., ABC). Fourth in a cycle of five Christmas programs: No Room at the Inn, the story of the Nativity...