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May 24, 2021, Letters to the Editor

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Origins of Salmon

Dear Editor: I would like to clear up some of the misconceptions that are bandied about concerning the origins of salmon.

Fog was lonely, wandering up and down an un-named river all by herself. ‘‘Come up the river with me,” she said to Cedar, who lived by the salt water. “I’ll make you happy and you’ll entertain me with the music of the wind in your boughs.’’ Cedar moved up the river. Fog and Cedar had many children, who lived along the river bank.

‘‘With this many mouths to feed,” Fog said. ‘‘We’ll have to put something away for a hard winter. We can’t count on all the winters being as mild as these last few winters.’’

Fog was always coming and going. Some days she didn’t hang around at all. One day she came up the river suddenly and the river was popping with bright silver fish that followed her.

‘‘These are salmon,’’ she said. ‘‘Hurry, give me some of your wood and we’ll smoke these for the winter. With salmon, we’ll never risk starvation again.’’

‘‘Hold on, Fog,’’ Cedar said. ‘‘I need some commitment here. You are always coming and going.’’

It even crossed his mind that Fog was up to something with Smoke, his enemy. Cedar’s lack of faith saddened Fog. She promised to stay at home as much as possible, and lived up to her promise. With plenty of salmon, and with the wood to smoke them, starvation was never a threat. But the foggy coastal weather of Southeast Alaska was set once and for all and the woods were gloomier than they ever had been before Fog and Cedar first got together.”

Thank you for the opportunity to set the record straight. 

John Welsh, Sitka

 

 

Quilt Show Thanks

Dear Editor: The quilt show happened!

After 37 years of annual quilt shows the Ocean Wave Quilters guild took a year off in 2020. We were busy quilting during the pandemic so this show filled the entire first floor walls and beds of Whitmore Hall on the Historic Sheldon Jackson Campus. 

We would like the thank the generosity of the Sitka Fine Arts Camp for the use of the building. Thank you, Raven Radio, for your community calendar. And a very big thank you to the Sitka Sentinel for the front page story and picture!

Put next year’s show on your calendar for the two weeks on either side of Mother’s Day.

Quilt show organizers

Janine Holzman, Megan Pasternak and Julia Smith