Re: A Potpouri ... And, Happy Easter To All!

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: : 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?

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: Hi Rich,

: "What WERE you doing ten years ago when "The Last of the Mohicans" was being filmed?" you ask. Well, I didn't bother answering - I thought it was a rhetorical question - my apologies!!  

: I was doing EXACTLY the same thing you and Elaine were doing!!!  I was moving house.  I had just sold the house I was living in  and was in the process of buying another, and trying to negotiate a three week entry date as the buyers of MY house wanted to move in three weeks later!  I was arranging packers and movers, trying to work out if I could get one child to her old school in the mornings, while arranging a new school for second child, and trying to get through all the financial red tape etc., involved in the 'buying/selling' process!!  

: Thankfully, 'moving' has been a regular occurence in my life and I've done the 'buying and selling' bit a couple of times on my own, so the process wasn't new to me and I was a little wiser concerning the 'pitfalls'!! Having only a three week 'window of opportunity' was a bit of a bug bear, but... I got through it without any major problems and very little descension in the 'ranks'! And - I can hardly believe it was 10 years ago now!!

: I have a feeling that the next 10 years will go just as quickly... *sigh*
: Kate.


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