Antique silver ring
Ang Lee's headed south. And there's a dearth of naked people running around Columbia County.
This is the hangover in the aftermath of what many are calling the biggest thing to happen to this area in decades, maybe ever: 'Taking Woodstock.'
The filming of Lee's motion picture about the 1969 music and arts festival was a three-month long affair that saw Hollywood play make-believe in this rural town known for its rolling hills and dirt track racing.
At least 5,000 extras, many of whom were locals, and hundreds of antique cars were used in the film. The crew numbered in the hundreds. Local plumbers, carpenters and mechanics were employed.
And the economic impact was huge.
Assistant producer Celia Costas said that while the numbers were still being calculated as of this week, it's estimated that the film contributed at least $8 million to the local economy, some of which went to Berkshire County hotels and restaurants.
Lee personally requested a private party at Kim's Dragon on West Housatonic Street
'By early 2009, we will be ready with a workable restoration model,' he said.
Simpson, however, refused to divulge the estimates saying the cost would run to a 'big six figure sum in sterling pounds'.
The cemetery located on Karaya Road in the bustling Park Circus area of the city has at least 1,800 graves, including that of economist James Wilson, founder of The Economist magazine, Rev. James Jones, whose 1849 epitaph describes him as the founding father of the Khasi alphabet and the pioneer of the Welsh Presbyterian Mission in the Khasi Hills.
The graves are old and are of high antique value - as some of them are made of Aberdeen granite and marble. The cemetery was founded when the first batch of Scottish Presbyterian missionaries arrived in the country in 1815.
According to the convenor of Intach's Kolkata chapter G.M. Kapoor, who is part of the project, the Scots laid the city's commercial foundation - its jute mills along the Ganga, tea gardens and the early processing units.
'They were hardy people from the highlands. Post independence, when the relatives of those buried here left the country the graves fell on bad times with no one to tend to them
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