JW> Hi Bjorn,

Hi.

 JW> I live in Yellowknife.

Must be nice.

 JW> On June 21st we get 20 hours of true sunlight and 4 hours of twilight but
 JW> it doesn't get dark. Even now, the sky is only dark blue, not black at
 JW> midnight. There is still enough light on the horizon after sunset that the
 JW> stars don't shine. I won't see them again until late August.

You can't bee an astronomer then.

 SH>> Yellowknife has a Midnight Sun golf tournament.

 JW> It's scheduled for June 21st and there are teeoffs for 24 hours straight.
 JW> the golf course is on the shore of a small lake and is all sand, no
 JW> greens, which is a challenge.

Must be. All other corses  have at least some grass.

  JW> Yellowknife was named after the copper knives the first European here saw
 JW> the Natives using. The Native Dene (Indian) name for the place is Sombe Ke
 JW> which means money place or trading place in their language. There was no
 JW> permanent village here but several tribes shared the summer fishing
 JW> grounds here on a seasonal basis (and traded with each other.) There was
 JW> only a permanent settlement here after 1934 when gold was discovered.
 JW> Because of the mines, Yellowknife is over half white, not Native but the
 JW> other small villages in the region are predominantly Dene.

Sounds nice.
What do you do for a living there today? Are the gold mines still in use?


 JW> ... Yellowknife - mosquito supplier to the free world.

We have a lot of them here as well.

//Bj”rn

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