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Two Old Women: Book Review

One day, I was browsing the bookshelves of my local library looking for something interesting to read. There’s one particular shelf in an adult section of the library that I like to browse all the time, and it’s one that has books of myth, folklore, and fairytales . I eventually found a book that I had never heard of or read before; Two Old Women . Two Old Women is a book written by Velma Wallis . It is an Alaskan legend of the Gwich’in people that Wallis’s mother told her after they had finished collecting firewood (p. xi). According to Wallis, her mother had told her this story because of an earlier conversation they had while collecting firewood (p. X.) Wallis was amazed by the fact that her mother still collected her own firewood despite being in her early fifties, and despite the work being physically difficult for her (p. xii) According to Wallis, the elders amongst her people would work until they couldn’t move or until they died (p. xii). After talking about these things, her ...

Trip to North Carolina Part 2: Tennessee Visit


The day after making it to our cabin, we went to The Island in Pigeon Forge amusement park in Tennessee. The first place we went to was the Master's Edition Fine Art Gallery, which had beautiful paintings. We visited other shops as well, including a candy shop where we all got ice cream. My siblings played laser tag, and sometime after that, we went to an arcade. I only played the Skee-ball game while we were there, but my siblings played that and other games too. My sister tried to win a toy from the claw machine, and she almost got the toy she wanted. Unfortunately, as the claw was lifting up the toy, the toy slipped out of its grasp. However, she was able to win some tickets from a different claw machine, which I believe she used to get slime. It was nice to explore The Island in Pigeon Forge and take pictures and videos there.

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