From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
Do we need to start a write-in campaign to get WotC to reprint Spelljammer along with the 2nd Ed. books this summer? I think so.
ReplyDeleteI gave away my Spelljammer books when I was in college. But I kept all my cardstock ships. I'd play a Spelljammer wargame in a minute.
ReplyDeleteYou didn't give them away. You exploited capitalism and sold them to me.
ReplyDeleteAnd recently my wife made me get rid of them selling them to half priced books. I wouldn't have allowed it if I hadn't found pdfs of them.
I sold them to you? Really? To a middle-schooler?
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