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Update .....Dadanawa was owned and still is it seems by the Melville family I mentioned in a post above ......

"I spent my last two days on Melville’s ranch, Dadanawa. At 1,700 square miles it’s the biggest ranch on the continent and an unforgettable adventure. Of course, there were the same big rivers, mountains and stampedes – but the Rupununi can also be brutally exotic. Almost every night the cattle were attacked by jaguars. Meanwhile, watching a round-up was like witnessing an extraordinarily violent sport in which no one – miraculously – gets hurt.

Everyone here lives an extraordinary life. My hosts, the de Freitas, slept (like me) in a sort of cricket pavilion on stilts, overlooking the Kanukus. The cowboys, on the other hand, were Indians – Wapisianas – and slept in barracks. They all carried long knives like swords, and rode brilliantly, barefoot and often bareback."   Read more >>

There are unsung heroes in this world and IMO Stan Brock is one of them.  He re-confirms my faith in humanity and enforces my belief that one's destiny is mapped out.  How extraordinary that his life (which does indeed read like a movie script) took that path from Dadanawa Ranch in the Rupununi Savannah in Guyana !!!  You're the man Stan !!!

Brock said there are plans to expand U.S. operations for his group, and he also wants to add a permanent clinic in Guyana and start up a program in Africa.  "This is a 365-day-a-year operation," Brock said.

He sleeps at RAM headquarters, a ramshackle schoolhouse in rural Tennessee, and he takes no income for his work. He doesn't drive a car and -- other than a bicycle and some odds and ends -- he has no assets.  "I guess I'm your basic indigent CEO," he laughs.

He is also humble, quick to deflect praise to the volunteers who have helped him through the years.  "It's those people that are making all of these patients either pain-free or more functional and better," he said. "They're the heroes. All I do is show up and carry some of the luggage."

Gimlette conveys a strong sense of what ketchim said in response to my question that terrain was the major problem in guyana..literally too many huge rivers to cross..terrain as great challenge.

Gimlette is also interesting in his description of the people he encountered..most interesting of all a Chinaman who had taken a vow of poverty.  funny but there he is of course, in the middle of Gimlettes exploration of the Rupunini

Melville and his brood is also interesting and they are still there.  interesting.

Lethem is where interests me. on the Brasil border..I understand a new bridge inter-linking both countries has been built for some few years now.

cattle ranching as a major factor in the material development of the interior of Guyana, leading to effective bridges taming rivers and linking up the land.

just a thought.  clean food is a growing international requirement.  it would be crucial that while the bridges are being built a law was passed in Georgetown that would forever lock out the agricultural devil Monsanto and its cohort gene-splitting entities

Brock is interesting. and it is fitting he is being recognized and his life celebrated with a movie.

I hope the movie does him justice..but as movie-making goes I d not hold out much hope.  the producers will prolly turn Brock into a saint while denying the revolutionary nature of his work:  lessons like human brotherhood as a solid and natural factor in human relations

they will make such as exotic and unique behaviour, typical for the bush, not regular modern social  life within which survival is for the fittest and the rich... and natural, cooperative brotherhood and sisterhood are indications of psychic disorder

but all of that is in the past now and it seems to me crucial that Guyanese get cracking on making something out of their country before they lose it...something west indian, regional and not something related to India/africa, save in some sort of parental relationship manner..that is where some of us are from and so one but our future is here and now and we must do according to here and now

Gimlette dismisses this issue with an uncomplimentary sentence..yet what  Burnham describes seems a major event ::confused::

who is the author of this article ::confused::

very interesting indeed

Yes , I do remember !

33 Chapters in that Link Calypso , evey Topic I am familair with.

Daaammmnnn....I shouldda stay and uplift  ~ oh beautiful GUYANA ~

Travelogue Gimlette disses but that uprising appears to have had serious interconnections...

somebody tried to steal Guyana ::confused::

Chairman and Googley wants a Republic of Berbice :

Rupununi Republic lasted 1 day  ::LOL::

can Berbice last ::confused::