1: 20 PM
| Sunset at | 12:00 Midnight | in direction | 333° | North-northwest |  |
| Sunrise at | 3:54 AM | in direction | 27° | North-northeast |  |
| Sunset at | 11:57 PM | in direction | 332° | North-northwest | |
Civil Twilight all day
Before I launch into today's topic about life in the Interior, notice an interesting shift in the sunset/sunrise times today. The sunset was at precisely midnight this morning and it will set again before midnight. We are up to nearly 4 hours of twilight and are losing 6.5 minutes a day now. Within the next month, we will see the end of civil twilight through the whole day.
Jo Scott who is giving up her life in Alaska to move to New York City where she can embrace the cultural life in her retirement, founded the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival in the 1980s. The following introduction to its history is posted on its website ( Summer Arts Festival History):
Jo Ryman Scott, Fairbanks, and Edward Madden, Boston, founded the Festival in April 1980 with the one-week Jazz Festival '80.
It was funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the
Arts (proposal written by Theodore DeCorso, Professor of Music, UAF;
Jean Mackin and Jo Scott) and a Guarantorship from the Kiwanis Club of
Fairbanks.
After that Festival, classical musicians asked to be included. In 1981, Scott and Madden successfully produced Jazz to Classics, the first two-week summer Festival.
In 1982, the name was changed to the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival because dance, opera, theatre, musical theatre and visual arts enthusiasts asked that those areas of study be added. Since that time, many disciplines have been added to the Festival, based on requests from registrants.
After that Festival, classical musicians asked to be included. In 1981, Scott and Madden successfully produced Jazz to Classics, the first two-week summer Festival.
In 1982, the name was changed to the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival because dance, opera, theatre, musical theatre and visual arts enthusiasts asked that those areas of study be added. Since that time, many disciplines have been added to the Festival, based on requests from registrants.
The festival has grown in scope so that many artists and attendees fly into Fairbanks from throughout the world. My husband, Gary, is working when events are in Davis Concert Hall, so I took a look at the events calendar for this year .. not including classes and rehearsals. Events are held at the Blue Loon, Silver Gulch, College Coffee House, McCafferty's Coffee House, Salcha Elementary - just to name a few off-site locations. Things will be going on across the entire region for two weeks.
I mentioned before that Fairbanks had an especially rich artistic bent. This festival has contributed to that inclination solidly for over 30 years. Fairbanks, a small city on the northern frontier, really does have a great deal to offer.
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