Posted on 01/21/2005 7:51:46 PM PST by SolidRedState
For 16 months since Amie Huguenard and Timothy Treadwell died in the jaws of a bear at Kaflia Bay on the Katmai Coast, I have been waking up at night with thoughts of this 37-year-old Midwestern woman I never knew.
I can't get free of the words in an e-mail from an old boyfriend, sent months after Huguenard's death.
"Amie had a kind of naivete about her that added a real sweetness to her entire persona,'' Stephen Bunch wrote. "At times it was easy to convince her of things that were not entirely true. We would let her in on these jokes and get a good laugh, especially from her.
"Sometimes I found this quality frustrating because I would watch her 'swallow the hook, line and sinker' in situations where it was obvious what was going on. But I always felt I could trust her because she bestowed the same trust in you unconditionally.''
The last person Amie Huguenard trusted was Treadwell, and it led to her death in the jaws of a bear.
Ever since, she has been billed as Treadwell's "partner" in the tragedy. Early reviews of "Grizzly Man,'' a Treadwell film set to air at the Sundance Film Festival later this month, describe her that way or as the "girlfriend'' following Treadwell on his quest to "leave the confinements of his humanness and bond with the bears.''
That's a novel idea -- and one that is so much bunk.
http://www.adn.com/outdoors/story/6029929p-5919386c.html
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He didn't have any choice in the matter! His rather masterful widowed mother (who lived to be 103 and played in a duplicate bridge tournament a week before she died) called him in one day and told him, "I think you need more male influence in your life." He said, "Yes, Ma'am." She said, "So I have enrolled you in The Citadel." He said, "Yes, Ma'am." And that, as they say, was that.
I don't know what they knew, officially or unofficially (Dad was still in the reserves at that time), but I remember it as a very serious time, with lots of talking on the telephone and lots of handing primers to dad! (I was 8 at the time.)
All so called nature lovers should do what Jesus did. That is, go out into the wilderness for 40 days with nothing more than you can carry on your person. If they can make the 40 days and survive they will have a whole different attitude when they return.
There was one guy that did try that. I remembered reading an article about it. He starved to death after about 30 days or so. This was during the summer when he could have eaten berries.
Gram was born in 1890, so she would have been 24 when the Titanic sank. She married that year, on March 14, her birthday. Her great-uncle Henry (her mother Nannie's uncle) was with Dewey at Manila Bay. She was from Eufaula, AL, there must have been something in the water down there, her mom lived to be 97 and her sister lived to be 94.
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