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The Cats of Savone is in the News…The Escape of Two Convicted Killers from Clinton Correctional Facility

‘Little Siberia’ is back in the news.  The escape of two convicted killers from Clinton Correctional Facility – known to locals, prisoners, and even ardent movie fans as Dannemora – has propelled the ancient prison into the headlines.  The prison was the model for the fictional Savone State Prison which …

Cherokee Talisman War Club Comes to Life!

What a fantastic work of art!  This is Bruce Reed’s (Native Cherokee craftsman) rendition of the war club wielded by the character, Totsuhwa, in the novels Cherokee Talisman and Losing St. Christopher.   The war club is amazingly a single piece of walnut handcrafted in the traditional methods of the Cherokee …

I Enjoyed my Visit to the Cherokee Museum!

The self-guided tour at The Museum of the Cherokee Indian begins with the “Story Lodge,” where ancient Cherokee myths appear through computer animation. You continue through the Paleo period, when mastodons were killed with simple spears. Through the Archaic and Woodland periods, people adapted the environment to their needs, creating agriculture, …