Compass points you that way, unless you've been keeping it next to a magnet. Santa Claus lives up there.
In Native American traditions that have a medicine wheel, and in New Age interpretations of these traditions, north is a cardinal direction symbolizing wisdom, detachment, or completion. North is usually associated with winter, and depending on the specific nation or tribe, the totem animal associated with north may be a white buffalo, eagle, moose, horse or bear.
1986 album by New England bluesman/folk singer Bill Morrissey released on the Philo label (PH 1006). Tracks:
- Pantherville
- It's Dangerous Out There
- Night Shift
- Married Man (Bill Morrissey and Cormac MacCarthy)
- Ice Fishing
- My Old Town
- North
- She Moved through the Fair
- He Drinks Alone
- Snow Outside the Mill
- Fishing a Stream I Once Fished as a Kid