Timedog said:
Okay, I think I'm down. I think I'm down for this. I don't know why or how this is happening. I'll help you. What do I need to do?
http://45surf.com/THE_LEGEND_OF_MCCOY_MOUNTAIN_first-half.pdf (please read & get back to me)
http://mccoymountain.com/
The Legend of McCoy Mountain & The Gold 45 Revolver
The Night The Civil War Was Lost
Renaissance Mountain LLC Productions
YouPrinceton graduate Mary McCoyare shooting a documentary on a
Civil War ghost, entitled The Legend of McCoy Mountain for Sundance.
The film opens as we visit the graveyard where your
great-great-great-great grandfather Johnny McCoy is buried. You'll
give a bit of the Civil War's history & recount the battle of McCoy
Mountainthe abolitionist Johnny McCoy deserted the Confederacy that
rainy nightan act that single-handedly formed the tipping point that
lead to the Union's victory.
You'll get to read & marvel at the eloquence of the Gettysburg
addressyour character will bring the exalted spirit of America to
life, and yet, something, about our day and age, eats away at you.
A few days after his desertion, Johnny McCoy was found hanging up on
McCoy Mountainwas he hung by Confederates for desertion? Did the
Union hang him for having been a Confederate? Did he hang himself
because of the guilt he felt for having deserted? Supposedly the
ghost speaks of this once a year, but nobody who hears lives to share
it.
As you complete the prep work before visiting McCoy Mountain, you
become more and more possessed by somethingyour clothes change, your
look changesyou go from all-American to Goth. You'll get to have fun
with a full range on this project.
Mary McCoy recounts the full legend beside the campfire, "This very
same night in 1864, three Confederate soldiers were sent to kill three
Union lookout sentries at key points along the rugged terrain, to
facilitate a Confederate ambush the next day. Two of the Confederate
soldiers killed the Union sentries, but the third, Ranger McCoy,
alerted the Union sentry. The Union thwarts the ambush at sunrise and
demolishes the Confederate forces, resulting in a resounding defeat
the Confederacy never recovers from."
Mary continues, "The Confederacy discovers McCoy's betrayal, and they
send troops out to his cabin to hang him, but it is too latethey find
his corpse and family hanging atop McCoy Mountain. Did the Union
hang him as the enemy? Did the Confederacy hang him as a traitor?
Did McCoy hang himself?"
Legend has it he appears once a year begging forgiveness for his
betrayal, and if asked, he'll tell the story of the hangings, but
nobody has ever lived to retell his tale. Indeedover the years,
mysterious hangings, disappearances, and suicides have oft occurred on
McCoy Mountainthe documentarians find the locals referring to it as
"Massacre Mountain."
"Y'all know what Dante's ninth circle of hell was?" An old man sitting
in front of the general store warns them, "It was the traitorsI'm
talkin' about that final ring of fire next to Satan himself. That's
where McCoy's a burnin', and I wouldn't be surprised if someday McCoy
Mountain eruptsnot in flamenothat would be too good for McCoybut
in ice."
That night they google Dante's Inferno and find out that wikipedia
states, "Ninth Circle: Traitors, distinguished from the "merely"
fraudulent in that their acts involve betraying one in a special
relationship to the betrayer, are frozen in a lake of ice known as
Cocytus." But who were the traitors and to whom or what?
Here's a little movie I put together regaridng the gold 45 revolver for all those who might hate thew giant wall of text above:
http://blip.tv/file/1674625/