Carey Marshall is from Whitehorse and has lived on both sides of the mountain North of 60 for almost 50 years.
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Issue: 2020-01-15, PHOTO: Pixabay
The picture
With all of today’s technology, it’s amazing how some stories stay under the radar. The times are rare when you trip over a situation in which the lifeblood of a powerful government agency was dependent on one ordinary Joe. Read more
Issue: 2019-11-20, PHOTO: Pixabay
When counting sheep doesn’t help to sleep - but this method might not either …
I was watching a World War Two documentary the other day and it showed an apartment building in France that had been damaged by German bombs early in the morning. The building was still intact, except that the entire front wall was missing. Read more
Issue: 2019-10-02, PHOTO: Pixabay
Vanishing point in an invisible car
I have a clean driver’s slate. I mention this because it shows that most people, no matter how many goofy things they do when they were young, will finally straighten themselves out. I really try to never speed anymore and I am usually in... Read more
Issue: 2019-09-25, PHOTO: courtesy of Carey Marshall
You talking to her?
“When you haveit flat tire, you throwit over there and you takeit spare tire from that pile. Every three days you takeit air filter out of car and you putit on dirty air filter pile and then you grabit filter from clean filter pile and putit in... Read more
Issue: 2019-09-04, PHOTO: Pixabay
Chain of demand
I arrived in Inuvik for the first time in early July 1972. What first struck me as I toured the town was A) the 24 hours of sunlight and B) how closed off the town felt without a highway. It felt like even more of a no man’s land when I looked at it Read more
Issue: 2019-07-31, PHOTO: Pixabay
No blues for this bootlegger
One afternoon, in the mid-70s in Inuvik, I was looking for some oddball thing for my vehicle. I looked almost everywhere and then I decided to go see John, a local who owned one of the taxi companies. Read more
Issue: 2019-06-19, Asylumkid via Foter.com
Co-pilot for a day
One morning in the mid 1980s, a pilot named Fred came to my house. Since I had only met him on a few occasions at the coffee shop, I wondered why he had come to see me. Read more
Issue: 2019-02-20, PHOTO: Danny Macdonald
Remembering a friend
I was driving by the Whitehorse courthouse the other day and it made me remember a warm sunny day in 1985 in Inuvik. A customer came into my auto parts store to buy a gizmo he was looking for. I presumed he was just another dumb truck driver... Read more