Nov. 2014 Book Winner!
Congratulations to Mary Cahill, our November 2014 Book Winner! Mary, I’ll be sending a copy of STEALING THE PREACHER by Karen Witemeyer to you ASAP, Mary! Here’s Mary’s reply to our question to be entered in the drawing. (Have you ever been a passenger on a train?)
Mary told us that riding the train was a “Source of entertainment as a child..and a timeout for my mother…put me on the train for 100 mile round trip..packed me a lunch…mother got her chores done without me underfoot…picked me up at the depot up the road from our house in the country..Father was a railroad engineer and train trips were free to families…..”
That has to be the most unique ” timeout for mom” story I’ve ever heard, Mary!! Thank you for sharing!
Happy Reading!
Sue
finally watched a documentary called Vanishing Point and they caught small birds called auks I think….put it in sealskin bags then jumped up and down on the stuffed bags….all without cleaning skins or feathers but they leave it their for a few months and it turns into a delicacy caled kumic. …I think really fascinated if this is similare to the way they bagged the boiled eggs in seal oil and very curious if it jells …perhaps hundred year eggs from Chinese ancestors? I wondered how much difference between Inuit and the polar Eskimos of Greenland..no one else interested in the topic any way around here since my dad passes but they also can follow 1 ancestor from Canada ..A Shaman…crossing the frozen Ocean over years…just very sure you know all this but …I still love the idea and your books mixed together
finally watched a documentary called Vanishing Point and they caught small birds called auks I think….put it in sealskin bags then jumped up and down on the stuffed bags….all without cleaning skins or feathers but they leave it their for a few months and it turns into a delicacy caled kumic. …I think really fascinated if this is similare to the way they bagged the boiled eggs in seal oil and very curious if it jells …perhaps hundred year eggs from Chinese ancestors? I wondered how much difference between Inuit and the polar Eskimos of Greenland..no one else interested in the topic any way around here since my dad passes but they also can follow 1 ancestor from Canada ..A Shaman…crossing the frozen Ocean over years…just very sure you know all this but …I still love the idea and your books mixed together
This is fascinating, Antoinette. I’ve heard about the birds in sealskin bags but didn’t know they jumped up and down on them. I wonder, too, about the difference between the Inuits of the polar and western Alaska regions and those of Greenland, northern Canada. I do know that the Aleut people have some legends that are very similar to ancient legends from southeast Asia. I think the joy of studying ancient people is to find all these questions. We don’t learn the answers to many of them, but to know enough to ask… now that is something!