{"id":5359,"date":"2012-08-08T04:05:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T01:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=5359"},"modified":"2012-08-08T04:05:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T01:05:23","slug":"lincoln-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/08\/08\/lincoln-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most interesting-sounding fantasy movies of 2012, Wes Anderson&#8217;s underage love whimsy <em>Moonrise Kingdom<\/em>, was <a href=\"http:\/\/providence.thephoenix.com\/movies\/141911-new-penzance--rhode-island\/\">partly filmed<\/a> in Lovecraft&#8217;s beloved Lincoln Woods (Lincoln Woods State Park)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;the Quinsnicket or Lincoln Woods region which I have haunted all my life.&#8221; &mdash; letter from Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, 1933.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetspress.org\/cthulhu13.pdf\"><em>Cthulhu Prayer Society newsletter<\/em> #13<\/a> (PDF link) has a good account of Lovecraft&#8217;s rambles in the Lincoln Woods, in preparation for their own ramble event.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I hadn&#8217;t realised that there are a lot of giant glacial boulders to be found in the Park (handy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/rocks.jpg\">boulder map<\/a>)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/lincoln-woods.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lincoln-woods\" width=\"529\" height=\"461\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5360\" \/>Photo: Miles Crawford.<\/p>\n<p>Although sadly some of the boulders appear to have been scrawled on with crude graffiti in modern times. The Park appears to have been started as a reserve in 1907, and a detailed history is the book <em>Lincoln Park remembered: 1894-1987<\/em>.  I&#8217;m not sure if the Lovecraft letters appear in this book, or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most interesting-sounding fantasy movies of 2012, Wes Anderson&#8217;s underage love whimsy Moonrise Kingdom, was partly filmed in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/08\/08\/lincoln-woods\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}