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Seven years ago, S. Allen Counter travelled to northern Greenland on a scientific expedition and met the descendants of the Americans who discovered the North Pole...
Counter brought the two men, the 80-year-old Amer-Eskimo sons of Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson, back to the U.S. for a "North Pole Reunion." Their 11-day visit received international attention and was marked by a tribute from President Reagan and an honorary banquet at Harvard...
...event was part of Counter's campaign for fair treatment of Henson, the Black co-explorer who is rarely credited as a north Pole discoverer...
...Ashland, the tall sign at Silton Glass said, "Good luck Eric and 20 Miles To Go." As I walked by, the owner, Frank Tetschner, was taking Eric's name down with a pole twelve feet long. I asked him if Eric had decided not to run, or if they had had a recent falling out. No, Frank said, he had promised another friend, Nona, that he would put her name on the sign and he couldn't fit both names at once. Eric would have to be content with a photograph of the sign with his name...
With the Green Monster in left and a notoriously close foul pole (please see: Carlton Fisk, 1975) in right field, Fenway has always been known as a hitter's park...