Monthly Archives: February 2012

Pearl Keenan – One Foot in Each World by Claire Festel

By | Published: February 23, 2012

Pearl Keenan (Geddes) Tlingit name: T’aakhu Tla, which means Mother of the Taku River Born October 10, 1920, Twenty-four miles up the Nisutlin River, Yukon The different things I did in my life – it amazes me that I did those things. It’s due to the people who pick you up because they believe in [...]

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Scarlett Hall – It Just Magically Comes Together by Claire Festel

By | Published: February 23, 2012

The Eagle, Alaska checkpoint of the 1000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race is housed in the historic one-room schoolhouse. It’s a bustling place during the Yukon Quest sled dog race. Scarlett Hall has been Eagle checkpoint manager for “longer than I can remember – probably six or seven years.” She does it because she [...]

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Dennis Fentie, Yukon’s Pathfinder by Claire Festel

By | Published: February 20, 2012

This past May (2011), when Dennis Fentie retired after fifteen years in politics, he was Yukon’s longest-serving premier. At the time, he was also the longest-serving premier in Canada.  Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way! This maxim – burnt letters on a small wood sign – hung on then-premier Dennis Fentie’s office door [...]

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Heidi Festel-Frei, “High Heel Shoes” by Claire Festel

By | Published: February 4, 2012

Presented to Heidi Festel on her 90th Birthday: February 19, 2009 at the Frohegg Restaurant in Bern, Switzerland Tonight, as we celebrate Heidi Festel’s 90th birthday, her son – my husband Ed – and I, have two gifts to present to her. Heidi calls me her daughter-in-love, instead of daughter-in-law, as most people say. I think [...]

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