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Published: October 22nd, 2009 02:59 PM
Last Modified: October 22nd, 2009 03:16 PM
Link: Anchorage Press An Englishman wearing pajama pants, apparently disoriented by the light of a summer solstice midnight, walks into a bar near Fairbanks and asks, "Excuse me, but I was wondering if can you tell me if it's morning or night?" The guy and his gal stay for a beer, then say goodbye to the locals, "who surprisingly give the tourists a warm goodbye," observes Steve Jansen, a visitor from Phoenix. "Maybe they've warmed to a fellow oddball. But I suspect it's because they know the foreigners are just passing through and will never, ever come to Ester again."
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