Landfill-intercept art
Despite the fact that it was a long weekend and Whitehorse was pretty much a ghost town, the garage sale was a success, and very little had to go to the landfill. A few hundred pounds of paper (mostly photography magazines ) went to Raven Recycling, there’s a small...
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Snow decor
I love vintage posters, and was surfing this morning to see what’s out there. The answer, not surprsingly, is “almost anything you can imagine”. One shop in particular was fun – I found these 2 posters at Mountain Chalet. Okay, the boarding one isn’t vintage, but it would still...
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It may have been Hallowe’en, BUT…
The King of Poor Taste this year was certainly Whitehorse artist Lance Burton with his 5.4 meter (19 foot) replica of the World Trade Center with a couple of jetliners sticking out of it. That is in appallingly poor taste, and I’m equally appalled that the Yukon News would...
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Sam McGee on Etch-a-Sketch
I get a lot of really cool emails in my Inbox at ExploreNorth – here’s one I have to share with you. Ted Widen is a teacher in BC with a unique talent. While he had his Grade 10 students memorizing The Cremation of Sam McGee recently, he decided...
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