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Yosemite Movie Project Notes - Greg - 01-16-2021
Jerzy Pawlowski was a polish fencer who gets mentioned in Stro:TMDS and his name came up during the research for The Last Captain. After the Hungarians, the Poles were probably the best saber fencers of the 1950s and 1960s. When the Hungarian team came apart after the defection in Melbourne in 1956, the Poles started to win all the championships. There biggest star was Pawlowski. The Hungarians would like to point out that there team was trained by a Hungarian named Janos Kevey.
Pawlowski dominated Saber fencing in the late 1960s. He won gold in 1968 in Mexico City. He won world championship fencing medals. In the Seventies, he became head of the Polish Fencing Federation. Supposedly, fencing also made him very wealthy.
In 1974, he's arrested on spying charges. He's convicted of spying for the CIA and sent to prison for 25 years. He's released after ten years because of a prisoner exchange. He's released on the Bridge of Spies in Germany, but rather than go to the US, he returns to Poland to live out his life. The Polish fencing federation wants nothing to do with him and he is barred from fencing. In prison, he takes up painting and also realizes he can heal people with his hands.
That's a pretty fascinating story, right? I decided to look into it, to see if there is some meat for the story. I send out emails to various people who knew him or of him. The response has been good.
One of those people is Ed Korfanty. Coach Korfanty coached Mariel Zagunis to Olympic Gold medals. He is head coach at the Oregon Fencing Alliance. I had completely forgotten about the email to him, but he just called me to talk about Pawlowski.
It was a very awkward start to the conversation because I didn't know who he was or why he called. In my defense, his accent was a little thick and I didn't catch his name off the bat. But it was a fun call. He told some stories. He kind of hit Pawlowski at the end of his career and right before he went to jail. The story that stands out the most is how Pawlowski healed the son of a fellow Polish Saber fencer, who currently coaches in Egypt, from Brain cancer.
So, that's how my Saturday started.
RE: Movie Project Notes - Greg - 01-19-2022
The Yosemite Project
So, yeah. I might be coming to the end of cramming Yosemite history books and actually coming up with a concrete idea for a project.
To that end, I just had a meeting with local filmmaker who is also currently the head of ValleyPBS. I contacted him after seeing his name on a local FB page. He was graciousness to talk to me about the Yosemite Project. He said I can use ValleyPBS as a backer for the project in my materials, which I'm going to say is a good thing. I'm going to get him a treatment for the project. The next step after that will be a sizzle reel. VallyPBS Man will then help me get the sizzle reel to backers and people with cash.
RE: Movie Project Notes - Drunk Monk - 01-19-2022
Cool. Let me know if I can help in any way. I iz an avid backpacka there.
RE: Movie Project Notes - Greg - 01-31-2022
Really? I did not know that. If only there were pictures.
In today's research notes: How is it possible that two people both with the name Lippincott, yet unrelated, would both have an impact on the course of Yosemite and both visited the park in that same year. On June 24, Oliver Lippincott drove his steam powered Locomobile into the park, make the first time an automobile drove into the park. In the same year Joseph Barlow Lippincott of the USGS surveyed Hetch Hetchy as part of the program to dam the valley for San Francisco. JB Lippincott would go on to work with William Mullholland to help divert water from the Owen's Valley for use by Los Angeles.
RE: Movie Project Notes - Greg - 02-01-2022
This was supposed to be the treatment for the movie but it has turned out more of synopsis. Time to go back and write the treatment.
The Road to Yosemite
The Indian Path 1849-1855
Lafayette Bunnel joined Major James Savage’s Mariposa Battalion in 1851. The Battalion was formed in order to stop the local Indians from committing any more atrocities against Savage’s properties and the settlers in the Sierra Foothill. Taken in isolation, the Battalion formation could be seen as a reasonable response to the killings at Savage’s Trading Posts and to protect themselves from further assaults. But at the time Indian killing was big business in California. Miners could make more money from the State Government joining an Indian Hunting Militia than they could hunting for gold.As for the Indians, they had just enough of these interlopers from the east. The Miners fouled the local creeks. They destroyed the Indians sources of food, removed the oak trees which provided the Indians staple acorns and hunting all the deer. The Native Americans signed treaties with the US Government giving them different land and money in exchange for their land. The treaties were never ratified by the US Government. Since the treaties weren’t ratified, no land or money was given to the Indians. The Indians land was still taken. The Indians felt they had to do something. They attacked.
The Mariposa battalion waited for government approval before heading out. Mainly they wanted to make sure they would be paid to hunt down the Indians.
It had long been rumored that the Indians had a secret stronghold in the mountains. The tribe that dwelled there were supposed to be fierce warriors and not well liked by the local Miwok and Mono tribes. The tribe was called the Ahwahneechees.
The Mariposa Battalion did it’s job. Led by some Miwok Indians, the Mariposa Batallion followed the trail of the Ahwahneechees high into the Sierras where they came across the Ahwahneechee stronghold. Near Inspiration Point, Bunnel gazed in wonder at the tall granite cliffs surrounding the narrow valley. Savage chided Bunnel for losing himself in admiring the valley. They were there to do a job. Bunnel rejoined the battalion and they headed down into the valley
The Battalion systematically moved through the valley. They destroyed all the food the Ahwahneechees had gathered and burnt down their homes. They captured Indians who were trying to escape pursuit, including the leader of the Ahwahneechees, Chief Tenaya. Savage sent the Awahneechees off to a reservation on the Fresno River. Once there, the Ahwahneechees were surrounded by their enemies.
After a busy day of destroying the long time inhabitants of the valley, including Tenaya’s sons, the Mariposa Battalion sat around the campfire and tried to come up with a name for the beautiful valley they had discovered. Lafayette Bunnel thought the Ahwahneechee referred to valley as uzamati and figured that would be a good name for the valley, only he spelled it Ho-Semite. The Ahwahneedchee actually refer to the valley as Ahwahnee. Uzamati means Grizzly Bear in Miwok. But Bunnel might have misheard the Indians talking. They might have been saying Yo-che-mat-te which translates as They who kill.
The following days, the Mariposa Battalion continued their exploration of the valley, even climbing the surrounding cliffs in pursuit of their enemies. Northwest of the valley, they came upon a beautiful lake surrounded by granite domes. They decided to name the lake in honor of their captive Chief, Tenaya. When Chief Tenaya was told of this honor, he said the lake already had a name. And why name a lake after him when he would never see this lake again? He pleaded with the members of the battalion to kill him now.
Tenaya went to the Fresno reservation but did not stay there long. He and his followers left, traveling over the Sierra to join up with a band of Mono Paiutes. He was later killed after a dispute with the Mono Paiutes.
The Horse Trail 1855 - 1864
1855 was a big year for Yosemite as both Galen Clark and James Hutchings traveled with tourist parties to see the valley. Eventually Clark and Hutchings would own Hotels in or near Yosemite. Both would cross paths with John Muir. But their approach to Yosemite was markedly different.Hutchings made his mark in California by selling a letter sheet called “The Miner’s Ten Commandments”. For his next endeavor, he wanted to publish a magazine about his new state of California. Hutchings had heard about the Mariposa battalion and their “discovery” of a magnificent valley. Hutchings thought a report on the valley would be just the thing to start his new magazine. He even brought along a painter, Thomas Ayles to make sketches for the magazine. By the time Hutchings and his four fellow travelers arrived in Mariposa, knowledge of how to get to Yosemite had been forgotten by the former members of the Mariposa battalion. None of the militia members could guide them to the valley. Eventually two Indians were convinced to take them into the park. Hutchings and his group were amazed by all the sights Yosemite had on display. Hutchings wrote of the journey and published it in his new magazine, Hutchings Illustrated California Magazine. The magazine came out in June of 1856 and included sketches by Thomas Ayles. A lithographic poster of Ayles sketch from Inspiration Point released in the fall of 1855 became the first published image of the Yosemite Valley.
Later in 1855, Galen Clark also traveled to Yosemite Valley. He hoped that the mountain air would help cure his Tuberculosis. His TB was so bad, the doctors only gave him months to live. Clark loved the area so much he homesteaded 160 acres in Wawona along the trail that led to Yosemite Valley. Not only was he on the trail to Yosemite, he was only miles away from the Mariposa Grove of Sequoias. Clark’s generous nature towards travelers on the way to Yosemite prompted him to open up a hotel on his property known as Clark’s Station.
It could be argued that up to this point, Yosemite was regionally famous. That changed in 1859 when Horace Greeley wrote an article in the New York Tribune about his trip to the Yosemite valley. The article was the first time easterners may have heard about Yosemite. In 1860, the famous Unitarian minister Rev Thomas Starr King made the visit to the valley. He had gained some notoriety by a publishing a series of articles about the beauty of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. His visit to Yosemite made that trip to New Hampshire pale in comparison. He published a series of articles about the trip to Yosemite in the Boston Evening Standard. He also preached at his church in San Francisco that Yosemite was a sign of God’s love to man. Word about the wonders of Yosemite started to spread. But it wasn’t just articles. On Hutchings second trip to the Valley, He brought along Charles Weed to take photographs. In July of 1861 Carleton Watkins loaded up tons of photographic camera equipment on mules and made the trek to Yosemite. Armed with his mammoth plate camera which used 18x22’ plates of glass and an additional camera to record stereographs, Watkins made some of the earliest known photographs of the park.
Popularity breeds problems. A lot of people looked at the park and thought how could I profit from Yosemite. The environmental movement was in it’s infancy. People of the time looked at nature as a resource to be used and exploited not something to preserve. The cautionary tale of the time was Niagara Falls, another example of a wonder of nature. Profiteers snapped up all the land surrounding the falls making it impossible to enjoy it without paying someone for the right to see the falls. A few people, among them Galen Clark, didn’t want to see that happen to Yosemite. Rev Starr King even remarked in his notes on Yosemite that the only stream that was not befouled on his journey to Yosemite was the Merced river. Starr-King did a sermon and used Lake Tahoe as another symbol of God’s love for man. Yet two years after his sermon, more than 80% of the forests around Lake Tahoe had been cut down and used in the Comstock mines. Another man who wanted to protect Yosemite was Israel Ward Raymond. He sent a letter, along with some of Carelton Watkins photographs, to California Senator John Conness and urged him to protect Yosemite Valley. Conness took up the cause and a bill was passed setting aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove in perpetuity. On June 30, 1864, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Park into Law.
Just prior to the signing of the Yosemite act, James Mason Hutchings purchased the Upper Hotel in Yosemite and made a preemptive claim on 160 acres of prime meadow land opposite Yosemite Falls.
The Stage Road 1864 - 1880
From the start of the Yosemite Grant, the people who wanted to protect the park were up against the people who wanted to profit from the park. Sometimes the profiteers and the protectors were the same people. Frederick Law Olmsted, leader of the 8 commissioners responsible for overseeing the Yosemite Grant, wrote a memo detailing a vision for the park that was revolutionary for it’s time. The report laid out what Olmsted thought should be the rules for the new park, things like minimal improvements and keeping the park in it’s pristine condition. Unfortunately, two other commissioners disagreed with the plan and never sent it off to the California Senate for approval. Josiah Whitney and William Ashburner saw the report as taking money away from their own Geological Survey. They sent off their own report to the California State Government.The Yosemite Grant was supposed to put the rest the idea of private land ownership in the Yosemite Valley. The state owned all the land. The preemptive homestead claims were null and void. This really only affected four people.
For years Hutchings, along with James Lamon and two others, fought to own the land they claimed in Yosemite Valley. Hutchings won all the cases to make the land his. Until the Senate decided that the government would stick by the original charter and no one would be allowed to own land in Yosemite. The Government would buy the land from Hutchings and the others. Then they would lease the land back to Hutchings at a nominal rate. The clear statement from the government was that you could profit from the land in Yosemite. You just couldn’t own it.
During the years the bill about private land ownership made it’s way through Congress, Hutchings continued to act as if the land was his in the park. In fact, he hired a young man to build him a saw mill on the Yosemite Creek. The saw mill would be used to make boards for his buildings. The man he hired was John Muir. John Muir had done a stint herding sheep in Tuolumne Meadow. He hated the job. He hated the sheep. For the next two years, Muir worked in Hutching’s sawmill and explored Yosemite. Hutchings makes no mention of Muir in his book, “In the Heart of the Sierras” Muir and Hutchings seem to have had a falling out. It could be jealousy over Muir’s fame or it could be somewhat closer to home. The relationship between Muir and Hutching’s wife, Elvira was very close. After Hutchings lost the right to own the land he homesteaded, he left Yosemite in 1874.
Once the Yosemite Gran was enacted, Galen Clark was made the first official Guardian of the park. He was responsible making sure the park inhabitants followed the rules of the Grant. He maintained the roads and bridges and made sure visitors did not damage the park.
The numbers of tourists continued to increase as people like painter Albert Bierstadt and photographer Eadward Muybridge showed their impressions of the park. Bierstadt arrived in 1863. His paintings of the valley showed to Americans an untouched paradise during the time of the destructive Civil War. Muybridge’s photographs had a similar galvanizing effect. His initial photographs of Yosemite were part of a popular illustrated guidebook called “Yosemite: its Wonders and it’s Beauties”.
What Yosemite didn’t have was access. The trip was still a miserable experience atop mules down terrible fear inducing trails. That started to change in the 1870s. Two competing companies started building toll roads from the North of Yosemite. The Big Oak Flat Road out of Groveland started first but went bankrupt. The second heading out of Coulterville was funded by Dr. John Taylor McClean. McClean was given exclusive rights to build the Northern Route. The Big Oak Flat group asked the Commissioners for the right to build a road as well but were denied. The Commissioners had already given the right to McClean. While the Big Oak Flat Road group appealed the decision to the California Congress, they were given the go ahead to improve their horse trail into the park. Oddly enough, the Big Oak Flat Horse Trail was the widest flattest horse path ever, good enough to run stages over. Eventually, the California Congress granted the Big Oak Flat Group permission to build their road into the park, killing McClean’s monopoly for his road. McClean lost his fortune funding construction of the road. The toll fees on the road were never enough to repay him. McClean’s road was completed in 1874. Due to the improvements of their road, the Big Oak Flat Road was opened only a month later.
While Galen Clark was a tremendous asset as the Yosemite Park Guardian, he was terrible as a business man. His mismanagement of his properties and their debts forced him to sell Clark’s Station to Albert Henry Washburn and his brothers. Washburn managed the Yosemite Stage & Turnpike Co. He decided to build the southern route into the park that followed the current horse trail via Inspiration Point into the park. Starting late and encountering more difficulties than the Northern routes, the Mariposa Route into the park didn’t open until a year after the Northern routes.
The popularity of Yosemite Valley continued to increase. Artists like Thomas Hill took up residence there. The completion of the Continental Railroad made it much easier to visit the park. Galen Clark was kept busy arranging leases for the hotels and business that set up shop in the Upper and Lower Villages. Clark also found time to blow up the natural dam near El Capitan that turned the meadows into swamps during the spring floods.
But Galen Clark didn’t remain the Guardian. In 1880, all the Yosemite Commissioners were replaced with a new slate of Commissioners. The new Commissioners hired our old friend James Mason Hutchings to be the new guardian. It only took Hutchings four years to make everyone angry and he was fired.
Popularity bred problems. The horses used to convey tourists to and from Yosemite needed fodder so meadows were plowed under to grow feed. Other meadows were fenced in to be used as pastures for meat and dairy cows. Human waste from the visitors went directly into the Merced, that last clear stream in the Sierras as Rev Starr-King put it.
When Muir came back for a visit, the valley was not a place he recognized. And Yosemite Valley wasn’t the only thing to be saved. The mountains and valleys around the park were still open to developers. Sheep grazed in Tuolumne Meadow. Timber speculators eyed the trees around the valley with profit on their mind. Something had to be done. Muir and Robert Johnson Underwood, editor in chief of Century magazine, devised a plan to set aside hundreds of square miles of wilderness around the Yosemite Grant as part of a National Park. In September 30, 1890, the Yosemite National Park was born.
The Railroad 1886 - 1907
The Washburn brothers were losing business on their Mariposa trail into the park. The northern routes were much more accessible from San Francisco. That changed in 1886 when Albert Henry Washburn convinced the Central Pacific Railroad to run a spur line from Berenda in the San Joaquin Valley into the Sierra Foothills to Raymond, CA. Charles Miller got wind of the proposed new rail route and homesteaded 160 acres at the rail line terminus in the Sierra Foothills. The new route was a huge success. Washburn ran dozens of stages a day from Raymond to Wawona where guests would spend the night in Washburn’s hotel before taking another stage down into the Yosemite Valley or a detour out to the Big Trees in the Mariposa Grove. The town of Raymond swelled to 5000 people at the peak of it’s popularity. Hotels and Saloons were built. They started the phone service from Raymon. When the cavalry traveled from the Presidio to Yosemite in order to patrol the park, they came through Raymond. The cavalries next stop was just down the road from the Wawona Hotel.
The Raymond route was so popular that when Teddy Roosevelt traveled to Yosemite in 1903, he traveled through Raymond.
Roosevelt’s visit was an important turning point in the history of Yosemite. He traveled with a small party, eschewing the celebrations and gatherings that had been planned for him. He also had John Muir as his guide. The President’s group traveled to the Big Trees, Sentinel Dome, down the Panorama Trail and eventually to Bridalveil Fall for the three night camping trip. At the end of the trip, he took the Cannonball Express, which was Washburn’s markedly faster stage back to Raymond.
For his part, Muir got to spend three whole days telling the most powerful man in the United States about the importance of preserving Yosemite Park and having the Yosemite Grant be part of the overall park. In 1906 Roosevelt signed into law the act that receded Yosemite Valley back from the state of California. The success of the Raymond route into the park was short lived. By 1907, a competing group managed to carve a railroad path up the Merced Canyon to El Portal, the gateway to the Yosemite Valley. The railroad line was ostensibly used to transport timber out of the Sierra and down to the mills in Merced. But it also brought tourists to within 13 miles of the valley. Only a short time later the rail line to Raymond was discontinued.
The Highway 1900 - 1926
In July of 1900, Yosemite changed again. Oliver Lippincott and his steam powered Locomobile entered the park. It was the first automobile in the park. Lippincott, a Los Angeles based photographer, spent the several weeks touring the Yosemite Valley and taking pictures, including placing his car on Overhanging Rock at Glacier Point. The photo of the Locomobile was used by the Locomobile company for years in it’s advertisements.A month later, the Holmes brothers out of San Jose drove their modified Stanley Steamer into the park becoming the second automobile in the park.
Major Benson, the new superintendent of Yosemite National Park banned automobiles from the park in 1907. He thought the cars were incompatible on the roads with the horse drawn carriages, a ban supported by the Washburns, noted horse drawn carriage renters. But the pressure to have cars in the valley was too great and the ban was lifted in 1913. Visitation to park by automobile skyrocketed.
Another Lippincott, Joseph of the USGS had a similar impact on the park. Joseph Lippincott surveyed the Tuolumne River basin in the Hetch Hetchy area for a spot to build a dam. SF Mayor James Phelan had filed a claim on the river in order to get water for San Francisco. San Francisco’s quest for water was pushed into stark relief by the 1906 Earthquake and devastating fires. The battle between the city and conservationists led to an even stronger definition of what is a National Park. John Muir led the fight to preserve the valley and died shortly after the passage of the Raker which gave San Francisco permission to build the dam. The dam was started in 1919 and completed by 1923.
In 1902, James Mason Hutchings died when thrown from his wagon descending the Big Oak Flat Road
In March of 1910, Galen Clark passed away. When he first settled in Yosemite in 1857, he was given months to live due to the TB he contracted working in the Sierra Gold Mines. He died 55 years later at the age of 95. Clark knew he wanted to be part of the park forever so years earlier, he dug his own grave in the Yosemite Cemetery. He selected a beautiful piece of granite for the headstone and he planted sequoia saplings from the Mariposa Grove around the grave. He even drilled a well so it would be easier to water the trees around his grave.
RE: Movie Project Notes - Drunk Monk - 02-01-2022
too much words
just give us the elevator pitch
RE: Movie Project Notes - Greg - 02-01-2022
Why is it that the same people we are preserving the park for are the same people we are protecting the park against?
RE: Movie Project Notes - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 02-02-2022
(02-01-2022, 04:08 PM)Greg Wrote: Why is it that the same people we are preserving the park for are the same people we are protecting the park against?
Have you met “people”? People are horrible shits.
RE: Movie Project Notes - Greg - 02-02-2022
I have met people. It makes me sad.
RE: Movie Project Notes - Drunk Monk - 02-02-2022
This movie needs a title
Yoshittypeeps?
Gratuitous half dome pix?
How I learned to love hikers toilet paper?
RE: Movie Project Notes - Greg - 02-02-2022
The Road to Yosemite.
And I do love Hikers Toilet Paper.
(Messaged a women who was planning her hike through the Tiltill Area. I gave her the bad news)
RE: Movie Project Notes - Greg - 02-07-2022
The Road to Yosemite
You mention the name Yosemite and everyone has an idea of what you are talking about. People think of the soaring granite cliffs, the spectacular waterfalls or the giant sequoias. Ask them how the park was started and the answers become vague.
The reason Yosemite Park became a park is a mystery. Why was this particular piece of land set aside for future generations to enjoy? Today, that question seems absurd as millions of visitors tour the park every year. But at the time in the 1850s land was something to be exploited. You cleared the land of the valuable trees. You dug into the land searching for precious minerals. You fenced it off to graze your livestock. You planted in it to grow your food. What you didn’t do was set it aside so people could look at it. That was an unthinkable idea. And yet people thought it. But why? What drove people in the 1850s to set aside this area of land for posterity?
The early history of the park can be broken down into four acts. Each act can be seen as a fight between the people trying to preserve the park and those who had other ideas. The idea of preserving the land didn’t come easy. For all the people who wanted to preserve the land there were still plenty of people who wanted to use Yosemite for their personal gain.
The first act started with the entry into the valley by Major James Savage and the Mariposa Battalion. They were on a mission to destroy the Ahwahneechee Indians who had been raiding trading posts. This act ended with the signing of the Yosemite Grant which gave the Yosemite Valley into the hands of the state of California. At this point, the future of the valley was guided in two directions. On the one hand hoteliers like James Mason Hutchings wanted to privatize the land and use the valley as a profit making center. On the other side of the argument were people like Israel Ward and Senator John Conness who led the push to establish the Yosemite Grant.
The Second Act happened immediately after the formation of the Grant. Frederick Law Olmsted, the man who designed Central Park, came up with a plan for managing the park and preserving it for future generations. But the plan was going to cost money, money that could have been better spent on the geology survey that other Grant Commissioners wanted to carry out. The report was never passed on to the California State Government for approval. On a smaller level you had Galen Clark acting as the first Yosemite Guardian in charge of protecting the new state park. On the other side you had a host of hotel and bar proprietors developing as much land as they could for tourists.
The third act lasted from the signing of the Grant until the establishment of Yosemite National Park. But even after Yosemite National Park was established, the Yosemite Grant was still run by the State of California. This division of labor surrounding the area set up many conflicts. Hutchings fought with the state to keep his land in the valley while John Muir and magazine publisher fought with the state for destroying too much land in the valley. The people on Muir’s side of the argument referred to the valley as the Hay Field because of all the meadows that had been turned into pastures and farms for grain.
Act four ends with the recession of the Yosemite Valley back to the United States Government. Finally, the Yosemite Valley was part of the Yosemite National Park. But the fight to determine the future use of the park raged on. The biggest battle was over Hetch Hetchy. San Francisco needed a dam to supply water to their rapidly growing population. The Hetch Hetchy Valley was their preferred location. The Sierra Club and the Secretary of the Interior argued that National Parks were inviolate for all time. Unfortunately Congress passed the Right of Way Act to allow San Francisco the rights to the water, followed by the Raker Act which authorized the construction of the dam. The Tuolumne River was blocked. The Hetch Hetchy valley filled. San Francisco got it’s water.
With each new Act, a new phase in transportation was used in the park. Major Savage used horses and the old Indian trails to enter the park. In the time between the signing of the Yosemite Grant and the formation of Yosemite National Park around the Grant, the race was on to establish stage roads to get tourists into the park faster and easier. Towards the end of this era, trains pushed ever closer to the park to cut down travel time. By the time of the Recession, a train stop was on the border of the park in El Portal. In the final act, the automobile arrived in Yosemite. There were some problems with automobiles introduction to Yosemite Valley, it was initially banned. But the popularity of the automobile for travel couldn’t be denied and the ban was lifted after six years. The advent of the automobile saw the biggest surge in tourism yet.
The battles about the future of Yosemite Park continue to this day. But these early fights established precedents for what the park could become.
RE: Yosemite Movie Project Notes - Drunk Monk - 02-07-2022
I’d watch this, even if you weren’t making it.
RE: Yosemite Movie Project Notes - Greg - 02-08-2022
Thank you. That's encouraging, even from you.
RE: Yosemite Movie Project Notes - Greg - 02-09-2022
The treatment has been sent to Valley PBS.