Way of the Cherokee

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by Anders Klinger1 view·Updated Nov 2, 2020
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  1. for my video presentation, I decided to focus on Faughey's
  2. relationship with her grandfather and her love of the land
  3. and related to my own experience I have with my
  4. own grandparent's in the story the way of the Cherokee.
  5. Two sisters, Fox in Sierra, spend a lot of time
  6. with their grandfather Hunt in Shelby, Montana.
  7. Fosse speaks fondly of her grandfather and tells of all
  8. the times they had together telling campfire stories.
  9. She has a deep respect for him and sees him
  10. as a wise elder.
  11. She loves being with him, mostly because he tells the
  12. best stories about these enchanting dear that room, the land
  13. in which they live.
  14. So she and her sister sit out on an adventure
  15. to find these deer and end up getting lost and
  16. stuck in the mud.
  17. Of course, her sister calls for her grandfather to help
  18. them, and Foxy goes into great detail, describing how he
  19. actually gets to her and frees her boots from the
  20. mud. For me, I had a somewhat similar experience to
  21. foxy. I spent every summer since the time I was
  22. born, visiting my grandparent's up in Maine.
  23. They had a house upon Mount desert island and owned
  24. a suitable five acres of land.
  25. Of course, that's nowhere near what Fox he had.
  26. But Mainland is very different.
  27. My grand parents had lived there since they came over
  28. from Germany shortly after World War Two ended.
  29. Just like Foxy, I would spend hours sitting and listening
  30. to my grand parents talk about their times in the
  31. war and how they grew up.
  32. It was certainly a mesmerizing experience.
  33. I, too saw them, is wise figures, and just like
  34. foxes, Grandfather, they knew the land in which they lived
  35. on. There were many times I had gone hiking or
  36. canoeing, and they had come to rescue me because I
  37. had gotten lost like Foxy had her memories and experience
  38. with her grandfather.
  39. I had plenty of my own.
  40. Every year we would go up and visit my grandparent's.
  41. We always had a list of specific things to Dio.
  42. It was tradition to go through everything on the list,
  43. from hiking up Beech Mountain to see the sunrise to
  44. canoeing on Eagle Lake at sunset, there were always things
  45. my family love to dio.
  46. Occasionally on our hikes, we'd find mushrooms, which you would
  47. pick and bring home to my grandmother.
  48. She knew everything about mushrooms.
  49. She would tell us all about the mushrooms we brought
  50. home and even used them in her food for dinners.
  51. It was the best in the winters.
  52. Up there.
  53. We would go snowshoeing and skiing around Arcadia National Park
  54. or sometimes just sit inside by the fire, watching old
  55. movies my grandfather found so entertaining, he had all of
  56. the memorized.
  57. He would tell me about the whole plot even before
  58. the movie started.
  59. Sadly, I don't have any pictures of them to show,
  60. as I was very young.
  61. And the only images we have around CDs a ZX
  62. well is the fact that my grandfather passed away around
  63. eight years ago and my grandmother is now in the
  64. home. However, their memories live on, and I will always
  65. remember the fund that we had visiting them every year