She Was Good, She Was Funny

February, 1994

In A Borrowed Cabin, in a northern wood, Walt Baffen welcomed winter. He had sacks and tins of food in the root cellar and a moose quarter in the cache. He had three cords of firewood. He had a bookshelf full of paperback classics and a propane lantern to read them by. He had a shortwave wireless and a carton of spare batteries.Most of all, he had his work--ten crates of obsidian flakes from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks archaeology lab, a case of excavation maps and site catalogs, calipers...