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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by James N.[/i] [br][b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/uploads/James N/2009111914440_CoopersCave1.jpg[/img][br][size=1] 83.93KB[/size=1] Last month I revisited the Upstate New York area which served as the setting for our "favorite" film, and managed for the very first time to see this "sight/site", known as [i]Cooper's Cave[/i]. I'd managed to miss it on both my previous visits. You can no longer really get out to it ( no doubt for reasons of "safety", protection from vandalism, and probable lawsuits arising from idiots! ); but can go this far, enough to "see" and photograph it. But there is a wealth of signage describing it, Cooper's relation to it, and its role in the story of [i]Last of the Mohicans[/i]; all of which goes a long way to answering certain questions raised here in the Forum. According to the signs, Cooper visited the "island" ( really, just a rock positioned mid-stream at the rapids known as Glen's Falls ) serving as tour guide for a couple of English Visitors. One of them supposedly suggested it would be a good setting for some kind of "wilderness adventure" and Cooper said he would use it in the future; hence the [i]Cave Scene[/i]. Cooper later went on to do just that, using this and [i]other sites he was familliar with, like the Adirondacks[/i]. Supposedly his idea was that the Huron villiage WAS located somewhere there; which we now know to have been historically impossible, reasons for which we have discusssed here before. This of course would GREATLY affect the timeline between capture and negotiation for the release of Cora, Alice, and Heyward. So it would appear that not too surprisingly, Cooper based elements of his novel on either incomplete or incorrect information! If you've never seen this in person, it's rather disappointing, and is more of merely a cleft in the rock rather than a "real" island cave. It also doesn't help that it's now beneath a highway bridge over the Hudson right in the middle of downtown Glens Falls amidst a couple of paper mills, one of which you can make out in the background of the accompanying photo. But if you REALLY strain and use your imagination, I'm sure it was much more impressive in the days when steamboats ruled the river and "progress" lay in the future. [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.