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Feb. 15th, 2010 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaThis will surprise exactly no one: I wrote this postcard from Bob to Caroline for omens. I'm very grateful to sage for beta reading! Reproducing the text here, mostly for archival purposes:
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Adressed to:
Caroline Fraser
Birch Hollow Cabin
Aklavik
February 10, 1961, Tuk
My dearest Caroline,
I'll be a week or so late. Buck and I ran into a bit of a snag on the way back from our patrol. Details later. We did work out what was going on down at the DEW station. Things were going missing, and the ninnies at the station thought it was a Soviet spy. Turned out it was just a poor hungry chap who couldn't get employment.
I hope Benton's done with his teething. Oh, and I sent you a new axe and whetstone by way of Thomson. I hope they reached you. Well, the mailman's waiting, and I'd better finish, or this card won't reach you before I do. Lord knows, I wish I could be by your side now. It's been too long.
Yours,
Bob
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I got the postcard at Västerbottens Museum, a local museum. I originally wanted to find one with reindeer on it, but they didn't have any. And most of the other cards were specifically Swedish. I really don't know what kind of postcards you could buy in Tuktoyaktuk in the beginning of the sixties, but this one is at least not completely inappropriate. Plus, I think it's beautiful, in an austere way.
If you're wondering what the DEW station in the text is, it's part of a Cold War defense system called the Distant Early Warning Line. These stations often employed lots of local people and had quite an impact on the local society. My reading on the history of northern Canada is paying off!
omens. I'm very grateful to sage for beta reading! Reproducing the text here, mostly for archival purposes:***
Adressed to:
Caroline Fraser
Birch Hollow Cabin
Aklavik
February 10, 1961, Tuk
My dearest Caroline,
I'll be a week or so late. Buck and I ran into a bit of a snag on the way back from our patrol. Details later. We did work out what was going on down at the DEW station. Things were going missing, and the ninnies at the station thought it was a Soviet spy. Turned out it was just a poor hungry chap who couldn't get employment.
I hope Benton's done with his teething. Oh, and I sent you a new axe and whetstone by way of Thomson. I hope they reached you. Well, the mailman's waiting, and I'd better finish, or this card won't reach you before I do. Lord knows, I wish I could be by your side now. It's been too long.
Yours,
Bob
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I got the postcard at Västerbottens Museum, a local museum. I originally wanted to find one with reindeer on it, but they didn't have any. And most of the other cards were specifically Swedish. I really don't know what kind of postcards you could buy in Tuktoyaktuk in the beginning of the sixties, but this one is at least not completely inappropriate. Plus, I think it's beautiful, in an austere way.
If you're wondering what the DEW station in the text is, it's part of a Cold War defense system called the Distant Early Warning Line. These stations often employed lots of local people and had quite an impact on the local society. My reading on the history of northern Canada is paying off!
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Date: 2010-02-16 03:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-17 09:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-16 02:52 am (UTC)We were part of the Cold War defense system when my dad was stationed at Keflavik, Iceland. I remember the radar installations - we called them golf balls (big and white and round with lots of flat sides)...
It was an interesting period of time.
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Date: 2010-02-16 11:50 am (UTC)And golf balls, huh. I had no visual of what it might have looked like, and now I do. *pictures big golf balls by the shore of the Beaufort Sea*