First up, via Redbubble:
And:
Uh Oh: Santa May Have a Big Problem
Specifically Federal law.
How's "CFR › Title 25 › Chapter I › Subchapter J › Part 243 › Section 243.4" grab ya, Mr. bowl full of jelly belly?
Originally posted for Christmas 2017:
The introduction of reindeer from Russia to Alaska was quite a big deal
at the time and a project of one of the most amazing sailors in the
history of the northern seas, Captain Michael Healy of the predecessor
to the U.S. Coast Guard, the Revenue Cutter Service.
For 20 years Healy was the law from Seattle to Point Barrow and
in what was to become the state of Alaska and the fact he was born a
slave and rose to become the first black Captain in the service of the
U.S. government was just a small part of his story.
The University of Alaska-Fairbanks has a short history
of his and Rev. Sheldon Jackson's efforts to supply Alaskan Natives
with a source of food, leather, income etc. when the northern whales and
sea-lions were hunted to near extinction.
The largest and most advanced U.S. Coast Guard ship, the icebreaker
Healy was named for the Captain and like its namesake is pretty tough.
A couple years ago it became the first U.S. surface ship to break its way to the North Pole:
