Visit: A Tale of Two Movies
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Weather: They are predicting rain, and I hope so, because we have a layer of forest fire smoke between us and the clouds. There is no blaze close to here, so I took a look at: Steamboat News. It looks like this smoke may be blowing in from the Bitterroot Mountains, between Missoula and the Idaho border, about 140 miles south of here.
Charity Alert: The Hunger Site Click away to help!
In The Community: Shooting good gallery pictures is hard work! I barely got 40% of the Winold Reiss exhibit shot yesterday afternoon. I'll need at least two more hours -- the pictures are all going back to their owners in about a month's time. The Hockaday Museum's Website
Day-um! I still have to shoot our street banners too! I want to do them in a new way, somehow. (Ladders? Cherry Pickers?)
Media Watch: I'm reading a book by Norwegian archeologist Helge Ingstad, from the late 1960's, about excavations in Labrador and Newfoundland for Viking settlements. The author was fooled by the now-discredited "Vinland Map," but he wasn't the only one. I didn't know that "Vinland" most likely meant "Grassland" in Old Norse either. Transcriptions from the sagas about Bjarni Herjólfsson, Leif Ericksen, and Thorfinn Karlsefni were delightful reading. The settlement Ingstad's wife, Anne Stine, excavated at L'Anse aux Meadows seems to have stood tests of authentication for the last 45 years.
So some of my Viking ancestors DID land in North America. They didn't stay long, or accomplish a lot, or even remember much of consequence -- they didn't know map-making, for instance, until many generations after Christianity was established.
Sanjay Doot and Salman Khan starred in a pretty dismal Bollywood comedy about two brothers wooing the same young woman. Salman's short, chunky car seemed to be able to zoom between India and Austria in 15 seconds though.
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