Mendenhall Glacier

This dinner menu is dated July 2, 1971, which appropriately enough was the day the Prince George was scheduled to tie up in Juneau from 3:30 pm to 11:30 pm. Mendenhall Glacier is located on the edge of Juneau, making it one of the most accessible glaciers in the United States. While it wasn’t visible from the ship, passengers would have had plenty of time to take a bus tour to see it.

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The back cover of this menu shows Ketchikan from the harbor, with the caption noting that the town is “a good port to stop, look and shop.” Given passengers only had 3-1/2 hours in Ketchikan the previous day, part of which time they were probably eating dinner from this menu, they didn’t have much of a chance to shop.

Page 2 has a poem by Robert Dick. Unlike other menus in this series, which just present an excerpt of poems, this one is in full. However, based on the quality of this poem, Dick has been justifiably forgotten.


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