Arctic aficionados should check out this excellent bit of work from the Orkney News about the John Rae Festival. Most are aware that a gorgeous reclining memorial statue to explorer John Rae is one of the highlights of any visit to St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall. Here we see it with the witty and perceptive Fran Flett Hollinrake, the world’s leading authority on, and only full-time staffer at, the 12^th-century cathedral. Most know, as well, that Rae is buried in the kirkyard behind the cathedral. Fewer know that the graveyard also contains a memorial to Thomas Work, an able seaman who sailed with John Franklin on the Erebus.