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...
Time to grab your gun and bring the cat in.
ReplyDeleteI started watching with Season 3. Ohmygod that was one of the best parts of that show. What the Old Man pulled off with that boat...
ReplyDeleteThis is my favorite scene in the whole series.
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ReplyDeleteJames LaManna the reimagined Battlestar Galactica!
ReplyDeleteThe Galactica jumped into the planet's atmosphere to get past the Cylon ships, so it's in freefall. It launched fighters, then jumped out. It was badass.
ReplyDeleteI think I remember that. That's from when half the fleet was living on that crappy planet that got all Cyloned up.
ReplyDeleteYep.
ReplyDeleteNew Caprica. Baltar giving Gina-Six a nuke, the only thing he was definitely guilty of.
ReplyDeleteCasey Garske what did you think of Caprica, and/or Blood and Chrome? Did you watch either?
ReplyDeleteI did not get around to either of those, unfortunately.
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