Posted by Rich/Mohican Press on April 15, 2001 at 06:12:42:
ABOVE: The answer, in chart form, to our question, "After viewing the Director's Expanded Edition of LOTM, what were your feelings?"
It won't be long now, and a slew of young 'uns will be awakening to their Easter baskets, breakfasting on candy & hard-boiled eggs, then getting ready for Mass. So, before this presently still home stirs from its sleep, I thought I'd wish you all a very Happy Easter Sunday! Enjoy!
It also won't be long till many of us meet up again, or for the first time, in the mountains of western North Carolina ... the real-life realization of Mohicanland. TWO months from today we'll be on our way to congregating in the forest known as Pisgah for a look around the Elk Hunt vicinity. That night, one of the things I'm most looking forward to this Gathering will take place ... and that is a concert by two of the most acclaimed 18th-century-style musicians, David & Ginger Hildebrand, in the world. And we'll have them all to ourselves there at Cedar Creek. I can't wait!
Our Web Site has been relatively dormant the past two weeks, or so. We hope to begin to change that beginning next ...
Anyway, several interesting & relevant posts yesterday & early this morning. I think I'll just take a stab at following-up right here:
Ros says:
"The Wes meter is looking healtheir all the time. I guess I am not the only one who wants
him to join us at the Gathering. Now, what do we have to do to pop that meter over the
top?"
This is true. This past week has seen the meter meteor upward. Thanks, Mohicanland! By the way, the flights are booked!
"Let's go all you Mohican maniacs."
Yes, keep it up! We still have expenses to cover, though we do have a good sum already towards that end.
"Don't you all want to see me turn into a blubbering
idiot in his presence???? Second thought, it wouldn't be a pretty sight!"
Who cares? I want to see it anyway! ;-)
Some of you, by the way, and I won't mention names - you know who you are - outdid yourselves in this fund-raising effort. Your generosity will NEVER be forgotten! Stand there, without turning red, for a truly deserved round of applause!
Ben writes:
"I maybe wrong here, and I do apologize if I am. But on the "Some of Our Favorite Shots"
page, has a picture of Major Duncan Hayward burning. Now, he did a very courageous
act, so I find it odd that a man doing such an act of bravery has ended up on your favorite
page, at least in a picture of him suffering. So I am therefore concluding its because he was
British therefore suggesting he deserved what he got?
If I had a site with Japanese soldiers condemning US Marines to bamboo cane torture with
the title 'Some of My Favorite shots' You may indeed think I was anti-American. Like I
said above, if I am indeed wrong I apologize."
Because you were polite, Ben, I'm going to bite my tongue on this one ... as hard as I can. But ... you've got to be kidding, right? These are shots from a film ... a piece of art ... we like the particular shots we chose because of that art. I don't know. One just never knows WHO one might offend. (Consequently, I usually don't say or do things with that in mind.) I simply try to say what I mean and mean what I say. Doesn't always work, but ... I suppose we are into and promoting bondage because there are a couple of shots of women (Cora & Alice) being (or already) tied? Worse, we MUST be very into beating women, hence the picture of a dead Alexandria haked in the back, right? On another page, of "Our Favorite Shots," we feature a dead Magua. Very anti-Indian we are, I tell you! Or, how about the one of Magua, still alive (What could THAT mean?), holding a DEAD Col. Munro's heart aloft. Should one suppose we are cannibals, maybe? Obviously, too, we have a bridge fetish. I mean, why ELSE would we feature a picture of the Bass Pond Bridge on our "Our Favorite Shots" page?!? Come to think of it, we are REALLY sick individuals! I just don't get it!
Moving on ...
From John Gremmels:
"Just finished reading the book. Loved the desciptions and the accounts of the Indians, but
great Googli-Moogli, Deerslayer sure runs his pie-hole a lot. Why didn't someone tell him
to shut up. I don't know if I can read the other books if Natty is going to jabber so much. I
like the Lewis character from the movie better, talked a lot less."
There's a REASON he's known around these parts as "Chatty Natty," you know!
And Gayle ... thank you very much for your enlightening, and quick, response to the question ... "Can you tell me what is meant by Hawkeye's 'I am a man without a cross'?" How come I always know who I can count on?
And, from the 2001 Archives, a quote from ... me!
3/25 - " ... And that's what was happening in our lives 10 years ago when "The Last of the Mohicans"
was being planned & shot. The rest, as they say, is history. Come this Gathering, it'll be
exactly 10 years, to the day (Sunday), that principal photography began on this film. And
what were YOU doing?"
Not a soul dared to tell! So, I'll try again ... What WERE you doing ten years ago when "The Last of the Mohicans" was being filmed?