Tomorrow, I will be performing for the second time since my re-entry into the field of acting. Camden Civic Theatre was brought in by Three Rivers Park District and Lind-Bohanon neighborhood to have storytellers portray historical Mississippi River figures during a Heritage Festival tomorrow:
http://www.geocities.com/hylton44/heritagedays.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/hylton44/HeritageStorytelling.doc
I will be assuming the role of Zebulon Montgomery Pike. I will emerge from the trees and speak to an audience (hopefully) gathered around a fire about my exploits in securing the land upon which now stands Fort Snelling (where I "negotiated" with Native Americans that had no concept of land ownership) and my attempt to determine the source of the river (which I incorrectly identified as Leech Lake).
The performances will be aired on community television, I think...
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I can't help but think of those Jebediah Springfield episodes from The Simpsons.
Good luck man. With no sleep due to family illnesses, you'll probably feel like a genuine frontiersman.
It'll be Pike from the 2nd half of the journey-after wading through 3 ft deep snow with legs so swollen he could no longer fit them into his pants legs.
So he waded through 3ft of snow NAKED
No, it was when he was staying at traders' posts.
So yes, to answer your next question, he hung around these posts naked. So to speak.
A scandal to be sure.
No wonder Minneapolis is such a den of inequity.
Watch your accusations bub. Our most famous religious character was also a Mississippi Explorer-Father Hennepin. Yours is Cardinal Law.
That hardly seems fair, on several counts.
Father Hennepin can hardly be said to have spent much time in MN at all. He 'discovered' a waterfall as part of an exploration of the area, but he also was the first European to describe Niagara Falls, so you've latched onto perhaps some of his lesser exploits. He also seems to have explored out of a sense of adventure rather than some religious devotion. He left his post in France to seek adventure. His memoirs are widely held to be wildly innacurate, clearly the work of a devout man. Famous and infamous, and while no one seems to mention any homosexual or child predatory behavior on his part, it's hardly reasonable to assume that there wasn't any.
Law was an inexcusable turd, but he was forced upon Boston by a corrupt church.
Since when did you become such an expert on Hennepin? 10 minutes ago, thanks to Wikipedia??
Not Wikipedia, but yes.
Pat Facts have an all new meaning and are now completely irrefutable.
It's sort of funny; occasionally I'll be writing a response to some post or other and say something where I can't quite remember the fact, and almost state as much, when I realize that I have access to the internet and there's no justification for guessing.
Though, if asked about your source, "internet" is accepted in the world of academia.
Back to the main point. I'll take a religious explorer that explores out of love for adventure than out of desire to prothlesyze & convert any day of the week.
Certainly, but that wasn't your point, and proselytizing and converting wasn't Cardinal Law's problem either.
I assume there will be a post about the event.
An anxious world awaits....
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