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September 16, 2008 |
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A Day at Starved Rock
FOUND by Jordan Z.
in Starved Rock in Utica, Illinois
Found a camera as I was walking around Starved Rock. The camera was destroyed but the memory card survived.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
You should try to find the owner of these pics using this site:
http://ifoundyourcamera.blogspot.com/
So, Hansel and Gretel had a couple more siblings but little Meta and Anna met their demise before reaching the gingerbread cottage; otherwise, the four could have easily taken the witch.
The girl in the middle has a torso for a head!
At first, I thought that torso was a set of bunny ears, but I think that it's actually little Meta.
Note the wicked spear that Hansel is toting!
follow the white rabbit!
This site was already provided, so I shall repeat. Do send some photos to the site below and get the pictures returned to their owner.
http://www.ifoundyourcamera.blogspot.com/
I wonder what legend/event is connected with the name "Starved Rock." Who starved there, when? And since when do rocks eat?
I'm reminded of the Blair Witch Project
I thought the girl in blue jeans was wearing bunny ears at first.
Starved Rock ... "The rock is an historic site of a successful siege against the Illini Indians, resulting in the starvation and demise of the entire tribe." (from the park's web site)
Hence the start of the great basketball rivalry.
...or maybe it's that these kids starved after some Illini 'Bigfoot' smashed their camera and held them hostage in a cave waiting for a cavalry that never came.
(to ward of starvation at Starved Rock, Hansel and Gretel ATE poor little Meta and Anna.)
Umm, hey, you kids there! I wouldn't go to close to that big rock...hey, really...not joking!
There's nothing quite like naming beautiful places after memorable moments in genocide, eh?
I would so rather be there than where I am right now.
Take me to Starved Rock!
Somebody?
Please.....
Starved rock my eye!
This is a still from the Brady Bunch episode where Bobby and Cindy get lost in the grand canyon.
If that's not Jan with the white sweatshirt, I'll eat my shoe!
Wow - this brings back memories of a 6th grade field trip to Starved Rock, and it has been several decades since I've lived in Illinois. I remember even then thinking the park's name and its story was horrific. But it is a beautiful place.
What a lazy tree. Get a job, Tree!!
more bars in more places....lol
Is that butt crack i see?
I think that's a belt/beltloop, not butt crack. It looks like a beautifull area. Nice place to starve to death a the hands of the cruel, oppresive white man.
Before even reading where this was located, I pegged it as Starved Rock. Interesting find. Too bad they lost/broke their camera.
Spam protection: What is 2012 minus 4?
Eeek! 4 years until the "end."
How do you kill a mosquito? You fool it into flying under a big rock held up by a tree and squash it at just the precise moment. hahahahahahahahahaha
I'm thinkin' the same thing as LIBRARIAN...along he same lines, anyway.
If their camera was FOUND all smashed and broken, what happened to these people?
I thought the girl in the middle had bunny ears on. Beautiful place. I want to go to Starved Rock.
It could be a poorly executed 'fake' lunar landing.
I'll have to try the magnify button.
WOW!!!!
The second I opened this up I _immediately_ knew it was at Starved Rock and the exact place.
Last year I chose Starved Rock as a birthday destination. We stayed two nights at an adorable bed and breakfast in Utica and hiked both days.
Although I think it's still technically genocide, the legend is that it was a band of Illinois that was surrounded and starved by bands of Potawatami and Fox. That is probably why White Man allowed it to be named "Starved Rock" in the first place. Had it been him responsible it might have been named "Freedom Rock" or something.
Here's the scoop:
the one in the white American Apparel hoodie (with hood up) is named Patrick;
the one closest to the camera is Patrick's 'friend';
the picture was taken by the mysterious "Z";
the two kids in the front are unrelated to these other three except that they later got freaked out by Patrick, Z, and the friend following them down the canyon; they screamed their heads off; an off duty Illinois state trooper there with his family strong-armed Patrick and gang back the other way, Z dropping his/her camera in the process and the trooper stepping on it.
Great product placement props to American Apparel, by the way!!
Christina -- I think it's the greatest that you asked for Starved Rock for your birthday trip!
Such a pure wish!
"woah, dude, is that Freedom Rock?"
"Yeah, Man!"
"Well Turn it UP, Maaaann!"
(*and pass that doobie.*)
(anyone else remember that commercial for the Greatest Freedom Rock songs, available on four records, two cassettes, or CDs! Not available in stores, so ACT NOW!
(and you KNOW it's at youtube!)
http://tinyurl.com/freedomrock
As Cynic mentioned above, though more apocryphal than factual, the legend of the naming of "Starved Rock" involves a band of Potowatami alledgedly trapping some of the Illiniwek tribe on the site as revenge for the killing of Chief Pontiac.
Being from the midwest and dominated by the Chicago news stations, every time I hear "Pontiac" I think of another place where people have nowhere to go: Illinois State Penitentiary, simply known as Pontiac. Quite the honor.
It had been a long and boring day for the three children. When suddenly events turned decidedly un-boring.
The oldest Zoe (you know, the girl who wrote the note to Patrick) was lumbering along, her bunny-eared head down with soul crushing ennui when the leaning, sideways tree decided to attack. It loosened it's roots, just enough to allow it to topple itself onto the young girl. Zoe(without umlauts)fell face first onto the rocky pathway. Her cries of unboring surprise and pain alerted the nearby Starving Rock. Who opened its gigantic mouth, sucking inwards as it did. The rush of wind thus created bore the force of tens of thousands of hurricanes and sucked in not only umlautless, bunny-eared Zoe, but also the leaning; sideways tree, other;smaller rocks, dozens of fallen leaves, many small animals (and some large ones), clouds, a small really unfortunate child and Zoe's siblings:Hanna and Ike.
Then the Starving Rock closed its mouth and the silence could be heard as far away as Chicago. Not a leaf stirred. Nor did any child moan in boredom.
It was over and Starving Rock, was no longer hungry.
Smallbear, I cannot tell you how many times I've told my girls never to leave home without their umlauts. This tale will certainly drive the point home.
If Jordan hadn't personally found the camera, I would suspect that this picture had been Photoshopped.
The kids look way too disproportionate to the rock/tree/whatever else is in there (the magnifier would not work)
@Librarian - I think your "Patrick" is a teenaged girl.
@Mary - Thanks! It was a fantastic birthday that I'll remember forever.
Oh and for all the comments about the camera smashed and something happening to the hikers - there actually was a murder at Starved Rock in the 70s. Three women were found in one of the canyons. I didn't learn of this until AFTER the two days of hiking and we had actually sat and eaten our lunch in the canyon they were found in! Scary!
@Christina ... "Patrick" would say 'thank you'
ooo i love starved rock its such a beautiful place i know exactly where this is in fact hahaha nice that you found it i'd try to return the camera or memory card though ;)
Actuall the triple-homicide at Starved Rock took place in 1960 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,82
but the man convicted is said to be innocent (and he's been in jail for 48 yrs)... and the place has been cursed with bad luck since the indians starved there so long ago... a 21 yr old grad fell 81 ft to his death just a month ago http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-starve and btw that's my camera
i LOVE starved rock. used to go there with my family every year. i remember it was cold. and there were tall cliffs and clay and we would put our hands in the clay and make handprints on the rocks.
@ Johnny_Five in Pekin, IL
do you mean that we've found who this photo belongs to??