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Harvest ritual

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A group of children in Alaska has their own harvest festival ritual: stealing other people's vegetables from gardens. In this satirical memoir, one autumn night when the children got caught is recalled.

Author: Doogan, Mike
Publisher: Alaska Publishing Properties Inc.
Publication Name: Alaska
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0002-4562
Year: 1992
Humor and anecdotes, Autumn, Harvest festivals

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Shooting a fair breeze

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A man recalls his childhood punishment for putting cotton candy in his sister's hair: working the food booth at the Tanana Valley Fair while his father chatted with all the customers.

Author: Doogan, Mike
Publisher: Alaska Publishing Properties Inc.
Publication Name: Alaska
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0002-4562
Year: 1993
Column, Fathers and sons, Father-son relations, Fairs

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50-below-zero merit badge

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The author recounts his experiences as a child in the Boy Scouts when they would go camping outside Fairbanks, AK, in brutal sub-zero winter conditions.

Author: Doogan, Mike
Publisher: Alaska Publishing Properties Inc.
Publication Name: Alaska
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0002-4562
Year: 1992
Natural history, Boy Scouts of America, Snow camping

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Subjects list: Personal narratives, Alaska
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