Kevin Bacon Biography: Kevin Bacon was born on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but moved to New York at the age of 17 to become one of the youngest students admitted to the Circle in the Square Theater acting school.
After appearing in the movie Animal House, Bacon got his big break in the film Diner and proved his box office appeal in Footloose. Since then Bacon has appeared in such movies as The River Wild, The Air Up There, Apollo 13, and Sleepers
Next week Kevin will be doing a community service acting job near Sheffield Mass.
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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon:
In 1994, a trio of Pennsylvania college boys with too much time on their hands and a bottle of Southern Comfort came up with the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Craig Fass, Brian Turtle and Mike Ginelli wrote a letter to then TV talk-show host Jon Stewart, who invited them on his show to demonstrate the game. From these humble beginnings, a Web site arose, a book was published and a nationwide cult-fad was born.
The game is based on the conceit of the John Guare play and movie adaptation Six Degrees of Separation. The play posits that we are all connected by six or fewer stages of circumstance or acquaintance.
The concept was taken one step further (or back). Noting how nicely Kevin Bacon could substitute for "Separation" in the meter, they hypothesized that he might also be the center of the universe, at least when it comes to connecting actors.
Although never a big box-office draw, Bacon has been in a significant number of ensemble films, from Diner to Apollo 13. And the boys discovered that if you use Bacon as an end point, you can link him in six degrees or less to almost any other performer.
For instance, Kevin Bacon links to Kevin Costner in one swift link: Both were in JFK. Julia Louis-Dreyfus of TV's Seinfeld, however, takes all six steps to make a chain, according to the book: She was in Christmas Vacation with Randy Quaid, who was in Major League II with Tom Berenger, who was in Shattered with Greta Scacchi, who was in Presumed Innocent with Harrison Ford, who was in Raiders of the Lost Ark with Karen Allen, who was in Animal House with Kevin Bacon.
Therefore, While pondering this Phenomena, I translated the concept into Geographic Locations where I have been in the "Last Days of Fair Play." (Rhymes With Pompei)
Before the Hoosac Tunnel, and The Mohawk Trail Highway were built, there were at least six ways to travel east over the Eastern mountain Range, which actually is an extension of Vermont's Green Mountains.
The British Colonial needed to travel between Albany New York and Deerfield Massachusetts.
I am told that one of the best and shortest was the Old Florida Road, which went through the woods from The Old Oak Turn in Adams to near where the Savoy State Forest is today.
When I was a kid, it was a favorite Scout hiking trail . There also were Oxen Drovers for Lumbering on it. ( I feel old remembering that)
Lacking S.U.V.s, early travelers rode on stagecoaches. The Classiest was the Concord Coach.
A Little History on Three of these.
Coach number 276 Concord Coach, #276 was built in 1865 for use in the
Green Mountains of Vermont.
Coach number 739 Stagecoach #739 is a rare surviving example of one of eight hundred coaches manufactured by the J.S. and E.A. Abbot Company of Concord, New Hampshire. Each Concord Coach was handcrafted to the specifications of the customer. In 1863, Kendall & Hawes ordered a coach for their stage business between Cooperstown and Fort Plain, New York.
Coach number 187 Gracing the lobby museum on Capitol Mall, Sacramento, #187 is one of the smaller, elegant "eastern" style Concords. The most notable difference is the all-wood front boot, instead of the large leather-sided one.
This coach traveled the rural roads of New England.
Last April, I was near such a coach in Cochise County.
It was inside The Compound that was built on the site of The O.K. Corral in Tombstone Arizona .
There is a sign on that coach stating that it was originally used on the Stage Line between North Adams and Charlemont Massachusetts.
Bud
I last hiked the route about twenty years ago.
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