A witty brightlywritten memoir of childhood in the Yukon The Cinnamon Mine traces the adventures of the Porsild family from Denmark to Greenland through Arctic Canada and finally to remote Johnsons Crossing where they operated one of the first tourist lodges on the Alaska Highway.Author Ellen Davignon recalls the early years when three kids under ten could handle the dinner crowd slinging stew and eggs because thats all they knew how to make to the later years when the trickle of cars passing through became a torrent and the lodge offered comfortable rooms with innerspring mattresses and running water. While catering to the demands of the travelling public was a life of long grinding hours with little in the bank as recompense the Porsild children enjoyed lives rich in fantasy and outdoor adventure in such settings as their cinnamon minereally just a bank of ruststained sand. Davignon lovingly recounts the good times and hard times as the Porsild clan carved out a business and a life on the banks of the Teslin River. show more