SI Vault Curry Kirkpatrick January 15, 1968 College basketball's
last tournament of the holiday season warms up chilly Nova
Scotia, where the winds howl in from the Arctic and snowshoes
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Issue  Nova Scotia is a far away, alabaster land where everybody
says it isn't snowing that much as you peel the top layer of
crust from your eyelids and hire a bulldozer to resurrect your
car from the drifts, and where the man on the radio announces
that the weather tomorrow will "taper off" to snow flurries.
Water nearly surrounds the Nova Scotia peninsula, and in winter
the winds roar and the snows blow in from the frigid north,
battering and blanketing the capital city, Halifax, and numbing
one's awareness of the significant role the area has played in
history.  Halifax was called "The Warden of the Honour of the
North" in the 1890s by Rudyar