{"id":7558,"date":"2021-02-16T10:24:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=7558"},"modified":"2021-02-16T10:28:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:28:58","slug":"i-will-be-late-today-episode-252-a-rock-fell-on-the-moon-by-alicia-priest-magnetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=7558","title":{"rendered":"I will be late today EPISODE 252 “A ROCK FELL ON THE MOON”…by Alicia Priest…magnetic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   EPISODE 252      A ROCK FELL ON THE MOON  \u2026  by Alicia Priest \u2026magnetic<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n

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Feb. 2021<\/div>\n

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I WILL BE LATE TODAY    EPISODE 252     <\/div>\n

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Story is intricate\u2026.fascinating at least to me\u2026very global as well, i.e. Russia in time of Stalin and <\/div>\n
persecutions of 1930\u2019s when people ate grass, dead animals and worse\u2026a marriage\u2026two<\/div>\n
little girls one of whom became an author just months  before she died\u2026and a  father<\/div>\n
who  had a grand  scheme\u2026and a trial in Mayo Landing in Nov. 1963 where it was so cold<\/div>\n
lawyers dare not turn of their car engines\u2026defence lawyer Molson (beer family fame) had a brand<\/div>\n
new 1963 Pontiac which was scrap at the end of the trial\u2026ran day and night\u2026<\/div>\n
45 degrees below zero\u2026lower than that\u2026coldest place in North America…Mayo Landing<\/div>\n
where the lawyers  and jurors drank double O.P.\u2019s<\/div>\n
in the Chateau Inn as we did in the summer of 1962..while Gerald Priest was stealing sacks<\/div>\n
of silver ore (if true)\u2026hidden  in the bush we were surveying that summer…and where a third man escaped prison because his <\/div>\n
jailed associates never ratted on him.  Honour among thieves.  <\/div>\n

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And the question of who owned 70 tons of silver ore\u2026Was it from a \u2018rock that fell on the moon.<\/div>\n
or was  it stolen from Keno Hill ?  How do you steal 70 tons of ore?<\/div>\n

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I must have seen, maybe talked to, Gerald Priest in the summer of 1962.  Maybe I even noticed<\/div>\n
Alicia playing with Caesar, her  dog, on a gravel road  in the lonely mining town of Elsa where<\/div>\n
we bought our food and had ice cream cones.  Alicia  may have had  an ice cream cone on a day<\/div>\n
that Bill Scott and I had ours.  We were there often.  <\/div>\n

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Alicia\u2019s story is magnetic\u2026like the Galena ore hidden on the trail near Keno Hill.<\/div>\n

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We were there\u2026.Bill Scott and I…while one of the great thefts in Canadian history was happening\u2026and no one knew.  <\/div>\n
Why did I never hear about this crime (if it was a crime)  until 2013? Simple.  President John Kennedy was shot in November<\/div>\n
1963.  All other news fell by the wayside.<\/div>\n

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alan<\/div>\n

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EPIODE 252   A ROCK FELL ON THE MOON<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
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Alicia Priest was  10 years old  in 1962.   I was 23 years old.  We never met although we may<\/div>\n
have seen  esch other.  She lived  in Elsa and her dad  was the assayer for United Keno Hill Mines,<\/div>\n
a silver and lead mine in the centre of the Yukon Territory, Canada.  She was a happy  little girl<\/div>\n
living in a nice pan  abode house provided by the mining company. Alicia and her older sister<\/div>\n
Vona loved the wilderness in which they lived   Her mom was a German  born Mennonite who <\/div>\n
just barely escaped  the purges of Joseph Stalin after World War Two.  Her daughter becameMrs. Preist \u2026<\/div>\n
met Gerald through a lonely hearts club… through love letters exchanged before they met physically.  Gerald was in a dead  end<\/div>\n
job in Elsa\u2026OR he felt he was.   He was a genius who had a plan that was as  big as  the moon.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Too bad he failed in the end.  Lots of people were rooting for him\u2026i.e. all the miners except one in<\/div>\n
the Keno Hill mine at Elsa.  Even some lawyers.  All the citizens in Mayo Landing many of which<\/div>\n
had been our employees  and friends in 1962.   <\/div>\n

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I wish he had succeeded too.  <\/div>\n

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etc.etc.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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