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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: Homestead List <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] Coosawattee Caveat
  • Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:41:41 -0400

In the event anyone besides me cares..
Today, just by coincidence, I happened to come across another reference to James Dickey and his inspirational trip. Doug Woodward, A GCA (Georgia Canoe Association) member and Deliverance stunt double, had met him at the home of Lewis King, the model for the movie Lewis-played by Burt Reynolds. Anyway, the scoop is that on one famous trip down the Coosawattee, in an area now under Carter's Lake, King and Dickey had real trouble and difficulty making it down the class IV and V river and almost didn't make it. They had to take out early in a wilderness area, miles from their planned takeout location, and just as they left the river came across some moonshiners. Instead of things going the way the movie portrays them, the mountain folks actually helped them out of the woods and back to their vehicles at the pickup site... So, that's what happened on the actual trip, and then in hindsight, Dickey asked himself, What if...and Deliverance was written..

Bev

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BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
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