E61- Line of Driftwood

In September 1921 a young Inupiat woman named Ada Blackjack traveled to Wrangel Island, 200 miles off the Arctic Coast of Siberia, as a cook and seamstress, along with four professional explorers. The expedition did not go as planned and when a rescue ship arrived in 1923, Ada Blackjack was the only survivor. Diane Glancy discovered Blackjack’s diary in the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College and created a poetic narrative around her story. Diane Glancy reads from Ada's diary, and her own poetry, as she and Elizabeth Howard engage in a conversation about how Ada Blackjack survived.

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