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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Infanta

Thea Foss, AKA Infanta
I'm reading Glacier Pilot by Beth Day, and she mentions John Barrymore's yacht Infanta in Valdez Alaska in 1937, so I have to go look it up. The word infanta is used to describe a child of the king in Portugal and Spain. The boat is still afloat, cruising around Puget Sound.

John Barrymore (left) and totem pole.
Poking around, I found that John stole a totem pole from an island is southern Alaska, took it to California on his yacht and had it set up in his backyard. Barrymore was a millionaire back in the 1920's when being a millionaire meant something. Kind of like being a billionaire now.

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