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Memories of Mount Rushmore

Have you ever been to Mount Rushmore?

Seeing today's CNN news report about Greenpeace hanging a banner on Mount Rushmore brought back several memories.

As a teenager I was fascinated by Mount Rushmore. When I was fifteen my family took a family vacation in our car to Mount Rushmore, the Dakotas, and Badlands. Somewhere along the way we stopped at Wall Drug. I remember buying trinkets there. When I first saw the monument from the highway leading to the park I was amazed at its size. The gift shop / restaurant was very modern. My dad and I took these photos on the trip:

These photos I bought as slides in the gift shop:

Soon after this trip I saw, for the first time, the movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest . The scenes that stand out in my mind are one in which Cary Grant's character hides in an Indiana cornfield to keep from getting shot by someone in an crop dusting airplane, and the other when he is climbing on top of Mount Rushmore with the blond woman.

There's a scene in that movie that was filmed in the gift shop where we ate! I thought that was so cool. I later found out that during rehearsal the kid just to the right of the woman knew there was going to be a shot fired and plugged his ears! It remained in the movie!

Have you visited Mount Rushmore? I can't help but wonder whose nose will break off first. And will they ever add another President?

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Now playing in iTunes: Overture (Stereo Version) from the album "North By Northwest" by Bernard Herrmann

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“I was against gay marriage

until I realized

I didn't have to get one.”

— JAMES CARVILLE

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Have you been to Niagara Falls?

When I was 14 I delivered the local newspaper in my northern Indiana hometown. One year there was a contest to see who could sell the most subscriptions to the Indianapolis Star as an add on. I won!

The prize was a trip to Niagara Falls...on a bus with other news carriers from around the state. It was the first time I traveled without my parents. We stayed on the Canadian side of the Falls, and I remember that some of the guys got in trouble for making noise and shooting fireworks out the windows. I stayed in my room and admired my red-haired roommate...although I wasn't ready to admit that I was gay at that point.

We took the Maid of the Mist tour. It reminded me of that Marilyn Monroe movie, Niagara.

I saw this video tonight which reminded me of the experience:

Niagara Falls in Motion from Matthew Wartman on Vimeo.

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Now playing in iTunes: Blazing Saddles from the album "Blazing Saddles Soundtrack" by Frankie Laine

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