Wintering Over In The Nova Tuskhut

Wintering Over In The Nova Tuskhut

Greetings from one of California's foremost historical show places. Situated in historic West Adams' Union Theatre is Southern California's only Arctic Trading Post - "The Nova Tuskhut." Installed in celebration of the 2014-2015 Velaslavasay Panorama Polar Year, this small wooden hut has a well stocked pantry, library, wood burning stove, bear pelt, picturesque window view, fireside cot and all one desires to "winter over" in comfort.

The Nova Tuskhut Library at the Velaslavasay Panorama holds a collection of rare, ordinary, scientific, literary, and Polar-related books to read while wintering over extended periods of time inside the Nova Tuskhut, the only Arctic Trading Post in the Lower 48 States.

...For the first time we seemed to realize that we are indeed isolated on this block of snow and ice, with its threatening, fir-crowned cliffs and howling wolves, its frozen stars and frosty moon, surrounded by nothing but a seething turbulency that men call Lake Superior. Our only link with friends and family — a little black box whose thin, querulous voice sent out through frosted skies will let the rest of the world know either of our safety, or our distress. I cannot help but wonder what the winter may bring us...   
-Dorothy Simonson, The Diary of an Isle Royale School Teacher. November 22, 1932

While days propel onwards as the hind legs of an Arctic Hare across the icy biome we will explore the contents of the Nova Tuskhut Library for well-read treasures and idiosyncratic text.

Book #1
"A Magnificent Farce and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector"

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PURELY PERSONAL - BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION It was inevitable, after the success of "The Amenities of Book-Collecting," that its author should attempt to repeat that success, and — You, kind or, it may be, suspicious reader, shall fill up that blank. Whatever your verdict may be, I shall accept it unhesitatingly; for one never knows, one's self, whether a piece of work, or sundry pieces, upon which one has been engaged for a long time, have merit or not. Our little quits and quiddities, once spontaneous, after having been written in pencil on odd scraps of paper, and typed by one's secretary in her leisure moments, look rather feeble when the galley proof comes in, and positively silly on the printed page. This is a risk we who print books must run. Nothing venture, nothing have.