White Pass and Yukon Route/1946%e2%80%931982

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    “A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)

    “But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.”
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