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...
Insert your own favorite quote from Teddy.
ReplyDeletehttps://plus.google.com/photos/...
Ike had some good ones, for sure.
ReplyDeletePretend I photoshopped in Lyndon talking about his penis.
ReplyDeleteAnd I said, that's no lady, that's my wife!
ReplyDeleteI had hoped that this meant he’d gone to oblivion to join Nixon.
ReplyDeleteNeed to have Eisenhower asking "WTF the highest tax bracket is only 30%. I raised that to almost 90% and still had one of the most successful economic periods in US history."
ReplyDeleteIke would of course downplay the impact of the delay of the US entering WWII had on the strong economy during his presidency
"I'm taking jumbo for a walk" - LBJ
ReplyDelete