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Offline Katie77

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Re: Postcard from Riverton
« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2006, 07:36:01 pm »
Just us special gals......
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Re: Postcard from Riverton
« Reply #11 on: August 19, 2006, 05:53:34 pm »
Were the hat colors added to the mural after BBM was filmed?  ;)

Thanks for showing us these cards and the mural.... great stuff!  -- Alec


As far as I know they have been just like that since circa 1942.
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Re: Postcard from Riverton
« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2006, 03:07:23 pm »

As far as I know they have been just like that since circa 1942.

This is scary! 1942????  :o

I looooooove the postcards!!!

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Re: Postcard from Riverton
« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2006, 06:21:32 pm »
Maybe the mural inspired the characters.........
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Re: Postcard from Riverton
« Reply #14 on: August 20, 2006, 09:57:31 pm »
 :)   I think Annie Proulx has been to these places and found inspiration there.

And I think the costume crew for the movie saw this mural and acted on it.




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Re: Postcard from Riverton
« Reply #15 on: August 21, 2006, 03:28:03 pm »
Did you get up to Lightning Flat? What does the countryside look like there? I noticed on a map it isn't far from Devil's Tower.

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Re: Postcard from Riverton
« Reply #16 on: August 21, 2006, 08:41:42 pm »
Hey Friend, go take a look in my blog and read about Cawboy Wayne and Me's trip to Lightnin" Flat in my blog over on OUr Daily Thoughts, about pg. 4. There is a picture of the house there. Have more, Wayne is a wonderful dancer! :D
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Re: Postcard from Riverton
« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2006, 10:42:43 pm »
That mural is fantastic!.  Is is obviously an inspiration for the movie. It's so hard to belueve that it'as been there since '42...gosh. Gee...
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Re: Postcard from Riverton
« Reply #18 on: August 23, 2006, 10:32:29 am »
I have done a bit of research on the artist, George Vander Sluis, who died about 1984, he taught at Syracuse University and had an interesting life it looks like, apparently unmarried, he painted a lot of barns in New England. The mural was part of a WPA project that began in the depression. What is so errie for me is this would have been created about the time the characters were born, and those hats.....
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Re: Postcard from Riverton
« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2006, 12:36:03 pm »
Oh, my, why would Ennis send a postcard to a girl?

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