To Boldly Go Where No Boy Has Gone Before
All-new post into editing mode and will publish next Friday. For now, this reminder that independence has its price. Cheers, Mike
“I’m in the middle, without any plans,” Alice Cooper sings, “I’m a boy and I’m a man.”
In the late summer of 1978, I was 18, still living at home with the Family Project and working nights at Tonka Toys.
And I didn’t know what I wanted.
Well, sorta.
You see, I wouldn’t have gotten there without the help of one Samuel Gribley and James T. Kirk—the former a 1960s Canadian preteen, the latter captain of a Federation starship in the 23rd century.
When and where I first saw My Side of the Mountain (produced in 1969), it’s hard to say. It could’ve been in Maryland, shown in class at Farquhar Middle School, or broadcast on network TV.
Sam Gribley, all of 12, lives in Toronto with his mother, father and two younger sisters. In the film’s opening scene, Sam peers through a fence at zoo animals…
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Completely in the Dark 