[Letter from Alberta Head to Celia Hunter, February 15, 1972] Page: 2 of 3
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graphing the north country. They spent three
weeks at Camp Denali several years ago, and too
away one of my husky dog Oona's puppies, who ha!
since gone everywhere with them.
Well, about Sally Carrigher. The last I
heard of Sally she had gone to live on one of
the Channel Islands between England and France.
She left Alaska sometime around 1955 or 1956,
feeling very upset about the unfriendly recep-
tion some of her articles and books got in Nome
which she considered her home town. She lived
near Princeton, N.J. - or wherever Princeton U.
is located for a number of years, and I visited
her there in 1961 on a trip Outside. Sorry I
can't be more definite about her present where-
abouts but we are completely out of touch with
her-. She is a charming person, but moody and
temperamental, and ultra-sensitive as so many
good and perceptive and gifted writers are. My
friend, Lois Crisler, who wrote "Arctic Wild"
was another-one-of this temptr ment - such peo-
ple suffer a great deal because they are more
vulnerable than most of us.
I think Moonlight at Midday is very good,
and gives an excellent account of many of her
experiences and observations during her years
of living at Nome and in that vicinity.
Incidentally, a good friend of ours, Garry
Kenwood (you'll read about him in the Tundra
Telegram - 1971 - our camp newsletter which I
am sending you under separate cover - is going
to be cameraman for a company which is going to
try to film "Icebound Summer" by Sally C. Be
great if they can do a good show of it.
Surely hope you do get the trip to Greece.
I want very much to go back. I think the girl
Karolina is still living on the island of
Mykonos. You can inquire of most anyone there
and they should know of her. I hope you will
also find your way to Vienoula's handknitting
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Head, Alberta F. [Letter from Alberta Head to Celia Hunter, February 15, 1972], letter, February 15, 1972; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1029840/m1/2/?q=%221972%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting National WASP WWII Museum.