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Tuesday 27 July. A day well-spent in the state historical library. With the gracious assistance of state archivist/Russian translator Tanya Stepanova, a footnote citing Steller correspondence in volume 2 of an 1870 History of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences is located. This work contains biographies of the early Academy members, including Steller and GF Muller.   Wednesday 28 July. An early evening climb up part of the Roberts Trail just outside of town. A forest bed of lichens and moss, surrounded by hemlock, alder and spruce. A swarm of gnats and mosquitos. An interceding solace. A lone bird's metered keen punctuated by the rapid songburst of another, like the complaint of a rusty bicycle chain tuned to the gurgling twitter of a water whistle. The stream below winding its whisper through spruce needles, corroborating an amplitude of otherwise urgent stillness. |
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| Early morning Juneau |
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| Juneau, from the State Historical Library |
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| The Alaskan Bar, downtown Juneau |
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