I just heard that Fess Parker passed away. If you're under forty , I'm sure your first reaction is "Who's Fess Parker?" Apparently he was most famous as Davy Crockett on the Disney TV series back in the Fifties. That was before my time but I remember him as Daniel Boone on the TV series in the early seventies or late 1960's. Ed Ames (who was most famous for his inaccurate tomahawk throw on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show) played his Indian sidekick.
I also seem to remember that the Daniel Boone show came on for a period of time in the afternoons - after school. The characters he played were bigger than life and he fit the role as he was 6'6" tall. The shows were classic Americana and usually had a good moral content.
Mr. Parker didn't become enamored in the Hollywood lifestyle and became wealthy by investing in California real estate.
I do remember that I had a coonskin cap like a lot of kids at that time. Wish I still had it. I might just put it on one last time for Ol' Dan'l and Fess. My condolences to his family.
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