Eve Joseph and Mikhail Baryshnikov

occasional series: This is part of an occasional series in which The Globe and Mail partners with the centre to publish a selection of those stories, according to Globe and Mail. More Related to this StoryHow a stroke changed how writer Eve Joseph views herself‘Social urbanism’ experiment breathes new life into Colombia MedellinAt Woodstock 45 years ago: ‘It was magical ... but it was scary’ Handout VideoVideo: Mikhail Baryshnikov and Ian Brown chat about Sex and the CityI have journeyed home to Alaska for the past 12 summers. The program encourages writers to explore new ideas in journalism and to experiment with creating a piece that might otherwise be difficult to complete. When I fly in late June near the solstice, sunset can last from JFK in New York to Ted Stevens International in Anchorage – it almost as though the planet has paused for 14 hours.I return to help build. I have spent much of the past two summers helping to stuff its timber-frame skeleton with straw and clay, tamping the muddy mix down into the walls with a huge wooden spatula. The Barn, which stands in a clearing roughly the size of a ballpark, is a 1,300-square-metre rectangle that rises above the surrounding forest of spruce peppered with cottonwoods. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.