From Voyageurs National Park on FB:
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 love that they repost the same article and just change the photograph.
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ReplyDeleteWe're garbage people.
ReplyDeleteAfter Sandy Hook I feel like nothing is going to change. That felt like a pivot point, but the country didn’t pivot.
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You know I think about you saying you got rid of your guns every time I read or listen to some gun story and think maybe it’s not all going to be total crap.
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ReplyDeleteCasey G. I think living in Canada and reading the same crap I always read it’s easy to picture America as some dumb caricature.
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ReplyDeleteStill think about this thread every time there is a school shooting. Which is more than I’d like to think about this thread, honestly.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I couldn't even bring myself to update it.
ReplyDeleteWaiting on high school kids to go full Snowpiercer at this point.
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