When I was 10, I lived in Atlin, British Columbia. My teachers in a one-room trailer school house were from Australia and enamoured with Robert Service. For the Christmas concert, I learned to recite ‘The Cremation of Sam McGee.’ Slightly weird for a Christmas pageant, but there are strange things done in the midnight sun. In September, Rick, Jim and I visited my parents in Whitehorse and enjoyed a drive out to ‘the marge on Lake Leberge’ and collected a few stones from the shore. We’ll take them to our grandson in San Diego, and the Robert Service poem will be passed on to the Americans in the family. That’s us wth the Melbergs Senior as we moiled for gold.
Karin Melberg Schwier 