The Indiana Cowboy: The Time is now

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The Time is now

It would seem that the spirit of entrepreneurship and taking matters into your own hands is alive and doing well. At least that appears to be the case of this town in Northern West Virginia. These people had and still have the right idea about what it takes to survive in an otherwise bleak economy and uncertain world. You don’t wait for someone else to rescue you and hope for a better tomorrow. Why? Because, it is not coming and anyone that is sitting idly by is very disillusioned and will be quite disappointed.

Perhaps other communities can take a lesson from this town. One of the keys is to find new ways to make your life and those around you better. How you ask? By finding what works and do just that. Then at the same time ask yourself what doesn’t work and stop doing those things. There is no quick remedy for a personal recovery. It takes determination, hard work and lots of patience.

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Annie said...: Awesome post! Great video!
I'm linking this at RimfireCentral.com!; April 6, 2009 at 4:59 PM

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Cowboy in the Spotlight - Story

Perhaps one of the best admired actors of the western television era is the man in the spotlight. This not my story but certainly one worth reading and of interest to all who miss those days.

Dennis Weaver grew up on a Missouri farm, and was an outstanding athlete on his college track and field team. He competed in the decathlon and came close to making the US Olympic team in 1948. A struggling actor for many years, he eventually became a familiar character actor in films, mostly low-budget westerns, and played Marshal Dillon's friend and deputy Chester Goode for the first nine years of TV's Gunsmoke.

Weaver gave his Gunsmoke character a limp and a twangy accent, and said later that he added these endearing embellishments to prevent his performance from being overshadowed by the towering James Arness, who played Dillon. Being a TV sidekick was not a lucrative job in the 1950s, so between seasons Weaver augmented his income by touring in a singing trio with his castmates Milburn Stone and Amanda Blake.
After leaving Gunsmoke, Weaver starred as the friendly veterinarian Kentucky Jones, as the paternal Everglades ranger with a bear on his hands in Gentle Ben, and as the New Mexico deputy marshal on loan to the New York Police in McCloud. In films, Weaver played the nervous manager of the Mirador Motel in Orson Welles' classic Touch of Evil. He also played a police captain in Jack Webb's original theatrical film of Dragnet, then played five different characters in five episodes of the subsequent series.

During a 1971 break from McCloud, Weaver was offered the lead in a television movie, playing a lonely traveling salesman chased and taunted on the highway by a crazed trucker. As the star, he was given veto power over the network's selection of a rookie director, but he agreed that the energetic young Steven Spielberg deserved a chance. The film, Duel, was released theatrically overseas, launched Spielberg's career, and is still considered one of the best films ever made for commercial television.

Weaver was a vegetarian since 1958, when, he says, it was still difficult to find a meat-free entrée at a restaurant, even in Hollywood. Solidly liberal, he and Valerie Harper were co-founders of L.I.F.E. (Love is Feeding Everyone), a charity which now helps fund more than 100,000 meals weekly to the homeless and hungry in Los Angeles. A devoted environmentalist, Weaver spoke out against America's addiction to fossil fuels, and lived in a solar-powered home constructed from about 3,000 recycled auto tires and 300,000 tin and aluminum cans. He advocated "creating prosperity without pollution", and recycled almost everything he used. He founded The Institute of Ecolonomics (a word Weaver coined, combining "ecology" and "economics").
Weaver died in his home of complications from cancer in 2006, at the age of 81.

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