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The sun was bearing down on Juneau this weekend for abnormally high temperatures. The smell of sizzling hot dogs wafted through the air as sounds of high-impact skating clashed into the summer day.

Showing that you're nevere too old to play with Legos.

This week I present to you a French recipe with an Alaskan twist: Salad Nicoise — Alaskan.

On a small hill surrounded by boggy muskeg in the Tanana River Valley, prehistoric skin scrapers made of schist, polished slate tools and glass beads were uncovered in the last week.

On our trips from Wrangell to Craig and Klawock on the TWINKLE we carefully cruise through El Capitan and Dry Passes that separate Kosciusko Island and the west coast of Prince of Wales. In the beginning, the entire length was known as Klawak Passage. When the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey explored this area in 1904, there was a marble quarry called El Capitan being developed. Thus, this protected pass became known officially as El Capitan Pass. At that time two shoals blocked navigation except at flood-tide stages for everything except a canoe. At some point, Captain Cyrus Orr of Shakan began to use the name Dry Pass for the middle section that went dry about four feet at lowest tide.