A friend of mine who works at the Library of Congress has been doing a lot of research on the works of Rudyard Kipling and had been running down references to Kiplings Oregon adventures, since she's a native Oregonian and naturally interested. Some of her research into a place locally known as 'Kipling's Rock' has proved that it's the spot associated with with the "fishing trip" episode in Kipling's American travelogue and she's been involved with getting the spot officially named by the state. She was contacted for this article and pointed me to it in a phone conversation. I'm thinking of making a virtual representation of it for Second Life – and also to make it available as an Open Sim "OAR" that anyone using Open Sim could download, enter, and do some virtual fishing from Kipling's Rock.
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Kipling Rock on the Clackamas River to be officially named in honor of famed author’s fishing trip
Rudyard Kipling’s famously happy day of fishing on the Clackamas River in 1889 will be commemorated Saturday when the Oregon Geographic Names Board is set to officially name a landmark boulder near wh…
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