Wednesday, September 16, 2015

I was talking to a man who lived in a sod hut back in the 60's.

I talked to a man who grew up in the old village.  He lived in a sod hut with whale bone walls.  He said they had caribou mattresses to sleep on and at the end they had electricity from 3 PM to 9 PM.  Sometimes, they had no electricity - it went out pretty often.

He is now working in the school's shop class and helping kids to make masks.  He told me the story behind the masks.  It was of a whale or a walrus and what it meant to the people of the village.

He also has a good knowledge of the history of the village, now and many years ago.  He worked with the archeologists who excavated in years past.

It was quite interesting.

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