Monday, February 11, 2008

Balto, we'll never forget you


The big news of one era--this one just 80 years ago--almost forgotten now except for this statue in Central Park.

http://www.baltostruestory.com/index.htm

The yearly Iditarod race commemorates this event--the greatest event in the history of mushing--rushing diptheria vaccine to Nome to stave off an epidemic.

How our daily concerns, our intersections of fear and laughter, melt like snowflakes in the sun of time.

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