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...
I can't find it now, but there's a medieval painting of a demon crouching at the foot of a priest's bed, giving the priest the finger. (Or maybe beckoning, but I always liked the idea of a demon shooting the bird.) We need a mini of that guy.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely not enough dicks. We need Moreven Brushwood to get involved.
ReplyDeleteProbably wouldn't be that hard to sculpt some green-stuff dicks onto them before painting.
ReplyDelete"Hey dad, whatcha doin'?"
ReplyDeleteDICKS HAVE SUMMONED ME!
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