See Russia from A Foreign Country: Alaska

Ah, the days when Alaska was its own country, not a dismembered appendage to the United States.

That's the perspective, at least, of this weekend's party, the World Tour Party, in which revelers will visit rich foreign lands like Russia, China, England, Scotland, England, Ireland, England, and Alaska. Alaska? Certainly. Of course you have to remember that back in 1932 there were only 48 states. Alaska was there as some kind of odd United States possession that people had heard about in the context of sled dogs, snow, Mt. McKinley, sled dogs, "Anchorage," "Nome,' "Nome," and sled dogs. So pretty much like today except for Sarah Palin and that whole statehood thing.

See you Sunday.