Summer Solstice in Anchorage

 Frank plays host in dVerse Poets Pub today. It's Haibun Monday ~ Summer Solstice fast approaches .... our  poetic focus is on just that ~ June 21st, the longest day of the year!

Fabian

Lou Christie

1994. A great line-up of top rock 'n roll 50's performers ~ an outdoor concert sponsored by Northwest Airlines (no longer flying) and the travel management company I headed. Anchorage Alaska ~ what had to be the dustiest day on record. The show began at 10am and ended twelve hours later! Concert-goers could not have cared less that it was dusty ~ shoes discarded, singing and dancing for hours on end in the swirling clouds. I imagine shower stall floors full of real mud puddles that night. I know I had one!  

Highlights of my day? Photos and lots of conversing (maybe a flirty smile or two from me) with Fabian and Lou, the Shirelles, Tommy James and the Shondell's .. standing onstage with Don McLean, his arm encircling my waist as we swayed back and forth ~~ singing into a microphone 'bye bye Miss American Pie, drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry' and on and on and on for 8+ minutes until we finished ~ took our bows while the audience hooted and hollered. A true once in my lifetime "performance."    

alaska's solstice

longest day I've ever known

summer's on my mind