Posted by Adele/Huggy on April 15, 2001 at 13:34:32:
In Reply to: A Potpouri ... And, Happy Easter To All! posted by Rich/Mohican Press on April 15, 2001 at 06:12:42:
Happy Easter Rich, Elaine et al. Sorry for my continued absence....lot on the plate as usual.
In answer to your question....I can't really remember what I was doing 10 years ago. I was footloose and fancy free, a career woman working for a huge pub and resturant company and living in my lovely appartment in London. And I know that I never realised how easy I had it then! I hope that I don't feel the same thing in another ten years!
And as for that 'British' post......was I the only one who nearly cracked up laughing?! Maybe it helps being British...who knows.....but I think as usual, Rich, you had the perfect response.
Roll on June!
Adele/HM
: 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?