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Conclusion of the 1996 documentary Fading in the Mist, produced by Bob Borgatti and Paul Lamont.  Narrated by Bruce Powers.

Speakers in order of appearance: E.R. Baxter III; Lucy Cook, executive director of the Buffalo Parks Olmsted Conservancy;
Paul Gromosiak, Niagara Historian; DuWayne Bowen,
Seneca storyteller.

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                               Table of Contents

Part One: Looking For Niagara ................................
   Mist ...............................................................
   Night Game .....................................................
   Robins Do Not Come to 3rd Street ...........................
   Winter and the Old Men in the Public Library
   on Main ..........................................................
   My Baby Loves Them Old-Time Movies ......................
   Apology to the Moon and Other Things .....................
   Record ...........................................................
   Looking for Niagara ............................................
   A Good War .....................................................
   Locust Song and Wine .........................................
Part Two: What I Want ..........................................
   Country ..........................................................
   Open Book .......................................................
   Dragonfly ........................................................
   Farmhouse Porch ...............................................
   Sparrow ..........................................................
   What I Want .....................................................
Part Three: Finding Niagara ...................................
   Niagara Revisited ..............................................
   Nicola Tesla Dreaming on Goat Island ......................
   Wild Geese Fly Upriver ........................................
   Finding Niagara .................................................
   Onguiaahra ......................................................
Part Four: Defying Death ...................................... 
   Condition .......................................................
   After a Long Illness ............................................
   Kayaker Takes Plunge at Niagara ............................
   On Meeting Karl Soucek in the Library .....................
   Steve Peer ...................................................... 
   Nik Wallenda Wired for One Night Stand .................. 
   Ode to a Photograph of Annie Edson Taylor ............... 
   Inside Stories ...................................................
   Fact and Fiction ................................................
   Biography II .....................................................
   Death in America .............................................. 
   Barbershop Photo ..............................................
   God ...............................................................
   Footnote .........................................................
   Author Biography & Photo ....................................

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Speaking of a Sharp Stick in the Eye And Other Thoughts 
    Whose eye is getting poked by whom? It's not as if the Transcendentalists had all the answers, either. After all, Edgar Allan Poe called them "Frogpondians," and you've got to admit that's funny. The poem "God" in Lost and Found...and the G-d therein might help you out there.    
    The front cover of L&F depicts a painting of the Niagara waterfalls titled The Rock of Ages and so reflects the poem "God," as well as paying homage to the earlier Looking for Niagara, which also had a rendition of the waterfalls on the cover, a needlepoint by artist D.R. Wagner, surreal with palm trees; the L&F back cover, spray can art by Richard Piza, bounces off that earlier back cover with its realistic photo of the artifact.    
    The documentary Fading in the Mist had a powerful influence on the formation of The Niagara Heritage Partnership: www.niagaraheritage.org.

 

Sonny Agnello and Baxter, the lead-off photograph to "God." The photographer was Harry Brashear.

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