 Old Willie, they came to call him in the little Eskimo village in which he was born and lived. Old Willie, the storyteller. His full name was William Okiluk. Came into the frozen world in 1896 with a special talent, as everyone knew, to collect and record the legends of the people of Alaska's Seward Peninsula. One story in particular made the youngster's eyes grow wide, the tale of the summer that never came.