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Episode Three of Five in the “Cosmos: The Stellar Stalker Radio Play Podcast.” Click on the link below the photos. It’s Free!

Dr. Stephen Taylor acting as Adrian at Dynamix Studios in Lexington, Kentucky.

About Cosmos: The Stellar Stalker

“Cosmos: The Stellar Stalker” might be called “uncanny,” “strange,” and “totally off the charts.” But equally apt reactions to this drama are “amazingly thought-provoking,” “mind-boggling,” and “one heck of a fun journey.”

In a hidden place, we find the evil Marloth projecting his need for survival out into the universe in search of nourishment. He does this in the form of his son and clone, Adrian. The nourishment he requires spells annihilation for its target.

We are now that target. Here on Earth, a special young lad, battling serious limitations, has been singled out as a force potentially powerful enough to join with other more benevolent powers in the universe to confront the nefarious Marloth. To ready the young boy for that which will be required in this effort, the powerful Cosmos and others like him, have arrived to prepare the way.

Bouncing from advertising agencies, television studios and industrial sites of all kinds to abandoned tunnels employed for the construction of very advanced technologies; the action never lets up as we see that either the evil Marloth and his clone must be defeated or the world we know faces destruction.

The First Episode has already been published on this blog. You can listen to it for free HERE!

The Second Episode has already been published on this blog. You can listen to it for free HERE!

All Five Episodes are now available on Spotify.

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Episode Two of Five in the “Cosmos: The Stellar Stalker Radio Play Podcast.” Click on the link below the photos. It’s Free!

Cheryl Rankin Van Stockum acting as “Jimmie”  at Dynamix Studios in Lexington, Kentucky.

About Cosmos: The Stellar Stalker

“Cosmos: The Stellar Stalker” might be called “uncanny,” “strange,” and “totally off the charts.” But equally apt reactions to this drama are “amazingly thought-provoking,” “mind-boggling,” and “one heck of a fun journey.”

In a hidden place, we find the evil Marloth projecting his need for survival out into the universe in search of nourishment. He does this in the form of his son and clone, Adrian. The nourishment he requires spells annihilation for its target.

We are now that target. Here on Earth, a special young lad, battling serious limitations, has been singled out as a force potentially powerful enough to join with other more benevolent powers in the universe to confront the nefarious Marloth. To ready the young boy for that which will be required in this effort, the powerful Cosmos and others like him, have arrived to prepare the way.

Bouncing from advertising agencies, television studios and industrial sites of all kinds to abandoned tunnels employed for the construction of very advanced technologies; the action never lets up as we see that either the evil Marloth and his clone must be defeated or the world we know faces destruction.

The First Episode has already been published on this blog. You can listen to it for free HERE!

All Five Episodes are also available on Spotify.

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The Life and Landscapes® Blog Site is at :

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Episode One of Five in the “Cosmos: The Stellar Stalker Radio Play Podcast.” Click on the link below the photos. It’s Free!

Marty Rosen acting as “Marloth” at Dynamix Studios in Lexington, Kentucky with Audio Engineer, Neil Kesterson!

About Cosmos: The Stellar Stalker

“Cosmos: The Stellar Stalker” might be called “uncanny,” “strange,” and “totally off the charts.” But equally apt reactions to this drama are “amazingly thought-provoking,” “mind-boggling,” and “one heck of a fun journey.”

In a hidden place, we find the evil Marloth projecting his need for survival out into the universe in search of nourishment. He does this in the form of his son and clone, Adrian. The nourishment he requires spells annihilation for its target.

We are now that target. Here on Earth, a special young lad, battling serious limitations, has been singled out as a force potentially powerful enough to join with other more benevolent powers in the universe to confront the nefarious Marloth. To ready the young boy for that which will be required in this effort, the powerful Cosmos and others like him, have arrived to prepare the way.

Bouncing from advertising agencies, television studios and industrial sites of all kinds to abandoned tunnels employed for the construction of very advanced technologies; the action never lets up as we see that either the evil Marloth and his clone must be defeated or the world we know faces destruction.

All Five Episodes are now available on Spotify.

The Life and Landscapes® Blog Site is at :

http://www.vanstockum.blog

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The early French visitors to Big Bone Lick would impact the formation of our great nation. But the fossils that they sent back to France would require radical thinking to sort out!

Thanks to Neil Kesterson and his Dynamix Studio in Lexington, Kentucky for the audio recording!

And here is the text to the podcast!

It is the 1739 French expedition down the Ohio River that is of immediate interest herein.  And because history and geography are so compatible, and the future twists back on its past, that expedition will link us to George Washington and his triggering of the French and Indian War fifteen years later!

            New France in America was often led by large French families with royal connections.  And so it is in this story.  For Charles Le Moyne of Montreal, the 1st Baron de Longueuil, was one of eight famous brothers.  And one of them was known as Bienville, who became the Governor of French Louisiana and founded New Orleans in 1718.

In 1739, the French King looked to him to deal with those troublesome Chickasaw Indians who were blocking travel down the Mississippi River.  So Bienville called in reinforcements from French Canada where his brother’s son was now in charge of the military forces at Montreal.  His name was also Charles, and as the 2nd Baron de Longueuil, is the central subject of this essay.

            For the expedition to assist his French brethren in Louisiana, Longueuil assembled about 450 men to canoe down the Ohio River after portaging their boats over from Lake Erie to the headwaters of the Allegheny River.  Floating down to the junction with the Monongahela River, Longueuil noted the high lands where the rivers came together to form the Ohio.

It was at that point that the French would later build Fort Duquesne.  And this French expansion into the Ohio River’s headwater was the reason that George Washington would be sent from Virginia in 1753 to tell the French to go back home.

            On that journey, Washington met with French commander, Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre at Fort Le Boeuf up near Lake Erie and handed him a letter from Virginia British Governor Robert Dinwiddie.  Legardeur was polite, offering wine and dinner, and sent Washington back with a letter of rejection.  Legardeur was part of Longueuil’s expedition in 1739 and was with him when he planted the French flag at Big Bone Lick in Kentucky.  And in another link in this strange twist of history, Washington was led in by frontiersman Christopher Gist, who had explored in Kentucky in 1751 and had also visited Big Bone Lick.

            Washington came back in force in 1754 but was himself, forced to surrender his hastily constructed Fort Necessity by the French leader Louis Coulon de Villiers.  Washington’s soldiers had killed his brother at the Battle of Jumonville Glen.  Villiers was also with Longueuil’s 1739 expedition down the Ohio which stopped at Big Bone Lick.

            In 1755, the French routed and defeated General Edward Braddock’s British Army trying to seize Fort Duquesne.  Washington was with him then and led the retreat.  And Washington was with a second English Army led by General John Forbes who later approached the French Fort in 1758.  French commander Captain Francois-Marie de Lignery burned down Fort Duquesne rather than surrender it.  De Lignery also accompanied Longueuil on the 1739 Ohio River expedition and was with him at Big Bone Lick.

            So, it was a diverse group of future leaders headed down the Ohio River in 1739 from French Canada.  And it was the first French expedition to do so in force.  There were 125 French inhabitants, military officers, and about 325 Native Americans.  And they had all heard of the Big Bone Lick and knew how to reach it.

            So Longueuil found it, planted the French flag, and collected three huge molars, a giant femur, and a long tusk.  Then he continued on down the Ohio River without recording much else about what would become the most important legacy of the expedition.

Instead of returning immediately to Canada after an unsuccessful campaign, the 52-year-old Longueuil floated down to New Orleans and sailed back to France and out of significance to this writing.  Except that he deposited those fossil bones from Big Bone Lick at the “Cabinet du Roi” of French King Louis XV, where Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon [1707-1788] began to study them.  By 1766, Buffon had developed his bizarre theory of “American Degeneracy,” claiming that life in the “New World” was inferior to that in Europe.  Thomas Jefferson strenuously opposed this unscientific assertion and spent much time writing and working against it.

But Jefferson had struggled with the thought that the creature from Big Bone Lick that had possessed such monstrous molars could have gone extinct.  That recognition would change religious thinking.  And Thomas Jefferson initially opposed that radical change in biblical interpretation!

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Big Bone Lick  in Northern Kentucky along the Ohio River, holds a special position in the record of science, history and culture. It must have been a place of almost magical attraction for the Ice Age creatures that would cross such a wide river to reach it. And perhaps ,for the hunting humans that followed them in, a site of mystical  and religious significance. It certainly came to be so for the European scientists who first examined the giant fossils buried there!

Thanks to Neil Kesterson and his Dynamix  Studio in Lexington, Kentucky for the audio recording!

Here is the text to the podcast!

The French had it good in the newly discovered continent called North America.  Sailing down the St. Lawrence Seaway they had established Quebec, Montreal, and even a fort at the straits of Mackinac between Lakes Huron and Michigan.  From there, they had explored the Mississippi River through Louisiana and reached what would become New Orleans at the Gulf of Mexico.  They hoped to block off that pesky English presence on the continent’s eastern coastline.  Except that wasn’t really working.

            There were Native American tribes down that river and one of them, the Chickasaw, had allied with the British and traded in their more available goods.  There were more British than French in America, and they were industrious in their production.  And French Canada was a long way from French Louisiana.  On the highlands overlooking the Mississippi River just north of what eventually would become Memphis, Tennessee, were the Chickasaw Bluffs.  They were not easy to get by if the Chickasaw didn’t want you to get through.

            By 1736, the French Government had had enough.  They sent a powerful French force up from New Orleans to subjugate the Chickasaw peoples.  They were defeated.  The French, that is.  And that didn’t sit well with the French King, Louis the XV.

            So, in 1739, he committed to a new military campaign against the Chickasaw.  Costing four times his annual income from Louisiana, the King sent over siege guns and committed French forces from Montreal and Mackinac to the expedition.  Four-thousand soldiers, citizens, and Native Americans converged upon Fort Assumption, located in what is now downtown Memphis.

This time, it was different.  Weather, disease, and recalcitrant road conditions simply stopped the French from moving effectively forward.  Only a last-ditch effort by French Captain Pierre Joseph Celoron would result in a temporary treaty.  Yes, the same Captain Celoron who would bury lead plates along the Ohio River 15 years later in a further failed attempt to demonstrate French sovereignty.

The troops from Montreal came down the Ohio River under the command of Charles Le Moyne de Longueuil.  It is through Longueuil that we first take notice of Big Bone Lick in Kentucky.  A salt swamp, it was well known to the Native Americans who attributed the giant bones found there to the “Great Buffalo.”  Longueuil collected giant molars, a huge tusk, and leg bones.  Then he planted the French flag.  But he didn’t write much about his visit.

            There were three other French officers down there with Longueuil who would write themselves into the history of the early United States.  Fifteen years later, they would confront George Washington at Fort LeBoeuf, Fort Necessity, and Fort Duquesne, and bring further the meaning to this story.

Longueuil’s troops didn’t make much of a difference to the Chickasaw conflict.  And when the French forces departed for home, up the river, Longueuil floated south to New Orleans, where he sailed off to France and out of this story.  Except that in Paris he deposited those giant bones in the King’s “Cabinet of Curiosities.”

            And the world would never be the same again!

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