Your Article and Photos re the Eagle Atrocity
Dear Luis- I am sure that you will not remember my wife and I, but we clearly remember you and the happy few days we spent at the Rancho with you, Ron Ramon, Donna Suzy and Don Rodrigo (the dashing sheep rancher) and the others between Feb. 26 and Mar. 8, 1995. Have you any news of the Andrews, George and Gerry, with whom we enjoyed a few trips. My wife, Marge, and I spent around three weeks in November 1999 on an Elderhostel program in Honduras, Guatemala and Belize. During that time we visited Copan and Tikal, amongst others. We had intended to come up to the Rancho for three days at the end of our trip, We had made some informal arrangements to that end with Mirabai) but we arrived back in Belize City from Roatan Island, feeling sickish and tired. We made a sudden decision to return home on the day of our return to B. City, so missed out on a visit with you. A young friend, a teacher of archaeology at the U. of Alabama at Troy AL has asked me to write up a little layman’s essay on my visits to the Mayan sites (18 or 20 so far) for the university’s archaeology journal. Have started to do so, and in preparation have reviewed my diaries and photographs. This exercise brought back many memories, especially of the trip we made with you and Serge Riau to my favorite site of all-Calakmul. So it was with excitement that I stumbled across your article on the eagle tragedy which took place on the access road to Calakmul. I remember the road very clearly. Do you remember that on the way out from the site we all thought we glimpsed a black jaguar crossing the road ahead of us? I also remember from the top of the main pyramid seeing the top of the one at El Mirador in Guatemala, and thinking some day I’d love to go there. The closest we got was Tikal and I scanned the northern horizon without luck. El Mirador is still relatively inaccessible, at least to oldsters. My main reason for writing is to ask if you can send me a few words, or a reference, to the ruins I have recorded as Kinichna. We visited it on March 6, the day we had lunch at the little home of Senora Juanita. I have not been able to find anything on it after a rather brief and hurried check at our libraries and on the net. Just a few words, even to give me the correct spelling, would be most welcome.
Many thanks, and cordial greetings to you and your family,
George Forsyth
