In March 2012, borough resident Caroline Van Hemert and her husband Patrick Ferrell (Pat) set off on a 4,000-mile journey from Bellingham, Washington to the Arctic Wildlife Refuge–a distance more than two-times the length of the lower 48. This month she released her book about their journey, “The Sun is a Compass,” in Haines.
Van Hemert read excerpts from the book at the Haines Borough Public Library last Friday, but earlier that day she spoke…