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...
At the start. Luckily he let me off the hook after a bit. I'm too freaking big. Place is made for gnomes and halflings.
ReplyDeleteMake that goblins and kobolds.
ReplyDeleteYes, I remember crawling into one of those things to retrieve my young son.
ReplyDeleteI somehow interpreted this as some sort of bizarre suburban parking ramp. Tubes and pipes and children and madness.
ReplyDeleteIt is in Edina, so anything is possible.
ReplyDeleteThese places always look creepy in black and white
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