KEMY LAKE NOTES (cont)
We have native friends who are as
fine a people as any could ask for. There
are ministers, teachers, heavy equipment
operators, office workers, business peo
ple, an attorney, and housewives who live
in much the same manner, hold opinions
based on thought and wisdom, and in ev
eryother respect, conduct themselves as
good, solid, citizens of our state.
A person who speaks in generalities
as Mrs, Whaley has done, does a disser
vice, not only to the subject but to her
self, I suspect the lady became discour
aged in trying to help some of the unfor
tunate native people she met in the met
ropolitan areas who had not "profited" a
great deal in their associations, either
economically, morally, or spiritually,
with a segment of the white populace that
the state could much better do without.
Fortunately this type of white is
very much in the minority, but neverthe
less leaves more than its share of de
gradation, remorse and misery with whom
ever they contact or do business with.
Of the other conditions Mrs. Whaley
deplores, I say, if they are not all out
of proportion to the true facts, that
natural growth, and the concern of
cur elected leaders, will serve to better
the situation.
However, I respectfully suggest to
Mrs. Whaley that she divide her efforts
in the field of missionary endeavor be
tween those proportionately few native
people and the really low grade of
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yet, perhaps she already has by now.
Some of the activities that take
place at Kenny Lake remind me of the
prints of Grandma Moses. The big red Ver
mont barns are missing, but I clear a li' -
tie more of the brush away in my mind's
eye, and the chimney smoke's the same.
One group that fit a scehe at Chris
mas time was the gradually swelling throi
of carolers; starting at Lower Tonsina,
they stopped at each homestead, sang car*
oles, gathered in that household, and mov
ed to the next, till the whole community
ended at the school house where they warm
ed up the‘place, made coffee and cocoa
and had fruit cake and sq,ng their heads
off for two hours to the accompaniment of
Phyllis Morrow's accordion. As near as Z
could count there were fifty-three of a
possible sixty-nine people from the area
crammed into the old school.
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A few nights later everyone gather--,
at the school rather on the Q.T., while
group of their neighbors stopped by the
homestead' of our newly-wed couple, Ruth
and Judd Grimm, who had been married in
Anchorage, and got them to come along on
some pretext. When they got to the school*
they found a wedding cake all fancy on a
nicely set reception table complete with
punch bowl, and a number-of wedding gifts
J for them.
Not the least of the attractions was
a skit in which the costumes for male anr
female'actors got switched a bit. It war
a mock'wedding farce that will live in tl
annals of the theater for_well, at
least in the memories of the cast. Two
of the most outstanding performances wer
by the bosomy prima donna with the strir.
hair (Jack Morrow) who sang a somewhat
changed version of MI Love You Truly”;
and the sweet little flower girl ?/ho ski;
ped along in her lace skirt, bonnet, and
chin whiskers (Roy Brittain).
The gathering was later earnest in
their’expressed wishes for a long and
happy life for the pair.
Tom Newton, school bus driver, and
Phil Rubin, the teacher here at Kenny L. '
flew back to Detroit together ovdi? the
holidays; Tom to bring back a new Green
Brier; school bus and Phil q, new car. ?
Some of the young people to ‘appear
in the Kenny Lake households over the ho.'
idays were Dickie Hunt,'home from Michig.
Francis Hunt, Jr. from Glennallen, Arnolc
and Vivian Lincoln, Sharon Bell, and Nor
m^n Kibble, all from Copper Valley School