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Legends of Myself 65

Continued from Legends of Myself 64

65. Gitanmaax/Hazelton, 1959:  Town and Field

Town.  Hazelton has a miniature town centre, dressed up these days to look cute and old-timey, hopefully to lure the tourists in.  I don’t remember it being nearly so compact, but at nine or ten, one’s expectations might be more compact.  It was large enough for our purposes then.

I remember going into town with…

Legends of Myself 97

97.  Highway 16, 1961: Pepper and Partings

I think it must have been a warm sunny September that year on the Skeena.  On our second day on the road continuing on from Tyee, I remember the heat of the pavement creating illusions of water ahead of us as we walked.  We were as kids impressed by that.  I imagine that my father had already seen something like it before.  Travel was slow and rides were…