My Artwork
Blue Ridge Meadow Original Oil Painting has been Sold
Prints on Paper or Canvas Available at KENDALL KESSLER ART
The great Charlottesville patron that recently bought Blue Ridge Meadow emailed me to tell me it is stunningly beautiful! Now that is what an artist that sells paintings online wants to hear!
Road to the Blue Ridge Original 18"x24" pastel painting $862
Prints on Paper or Canvas Available at KENDALL KESSLER ART
Wish I were on that road right now!
Here is another fascinating legend about the Cherokee Native Americans and the Black Bear!
The Bear Man
A
Hunter shot one arrow after the next into a black bear and chased after
it until the bear finally took the arrows out and told the man he
couldn't be killed and asked the hunter to come live with him.
This
bear was a medicine bear and could talk and read people's thoughts.
The hunter was worried the bear would hurt him but the bear told him he
wouldn't hurt him and there would be plenty to eat.
They
came to a hole in the side of the mountain that widened as they
entered. It was not the bear's home. It was a meeting place for bear
councils. The other bears were alarmed at the presence of the hunter
but the medicine bear told them it was only a stranger come to see them
and he should be left alone.
The
bear took the hunter to his home and rubbed his stomach and then his
paws were full of chestnuts. He did this many times for different kinds
of food and both he and the hunter had plenty to eat. The hunter
stayed with him and his hair grew so long he was beginning to look like a
bear.
One
day the bear told him it was the day hunters would kill him. He told
the hunter to put leaves over his remains after the kill. The hunters
entered the hole, killed the bear, and then realized the hairy creature
was a hunter that has been missing for some time. They left with big
chunks of bear meat and the hunter.
Before they left the hunter put
leaves over the remains of the bear and as they were leaving the bear
reappeared, shook off the leaves, and disappeared into the forest.
The
hunter told the tribe to let him be by himself for seven days so he
could shake off the bear nature and become a man again but his wife was
so determined to see him that she went into him and took him home. He
never became like a man again.
Legend has it that if he had been allowed to be alone and fast for seven days he would not have kept the bear nature.
Life with The Bird and Word Man - Clyde Kessler
The next Blue Ridge Discovery Center Happening is this Friday!
BRDC at Independence Farmers Market
Fri, June 6, 9:30am – 12:30pm
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scott@blueridgediscoverycenter.org
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