What would you do if the things you’ve been collecting for decades turned up half a continent away under someone else’s lock and key?
Yellowknife resident Janet Pacey is facing that situation.
She’s a huge trader of pins – the little metal things given to people at the Arctic Winter Games (and also made by, say, your local city hall or the special interest group you belong to).
Pacey has thousands and she doesn’t miss an Arctic Winter Games, the big gathering of circumpolar youth every two years where pins are practically a sport in their own right.
At the latest edition of the games in Alaska this month, Pacey made it on time – but her 200-lb shipment of pins, representing the bulk of her life’s work collecting them, was nowhere to be found in baggage reclaim.
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Now, a couple of weeks later, she knows where they’ve gone. The new problem is getting them back. Listen to our podcast for the full story.
Pacey also explains what she wants to do with the pins – if she gets them back – in the form of a “travelling museum” and, eventually, a book.
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