Doesn't photo on the right remind you of scene at Tara in "Gone With The Wind" when Scarlet O'Hara vows never to be hungry again?  To find out what you want to know about GTTW, "The Patriot" and other films that make history exciting click below and visit the internet movie data base <http:// www.imdb.com>

The 18th century rice mill at Middleton Place on the Ashley River west of Charleston, one of the South Carolina locations where Mel Gibson filmed "The Patriot."  Before the American Revolution rice was the number one export from the plantations along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina.  Middleton and other impressive estates were built along the Ashley River -- one of two rivers making Charleston a peninsula and a strategically important harbor during the American Revolution and the Civil War.  The British occupied Charleston for two years during the American Revolution.  Cornwallis was there before marching his troops to Virginia to be trapped in the siege of Yorktown, last battle of the Revolution.  The Civil War began when Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, an island in Charleston's  harbor still flying the Union flag until April 1861.
                               Carolyn Daily O'Connor
                                  original text and photos
                                                 copyright May 2000

FACTOID:  On 5/6/2000 at the Internet Movie Database <www.imdb.com> clickable above -- Mel Gibson's "Braveheart" (1995) ranked 63rd of the top 250 films of all time and 15th of the top 50 Action films.  Ranking in Top 250 was based on average score of 8.1 out of 10 and 26,277 votes.

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