The page works just fine -- it's my typing that is a mess! In other words, typo in the link above.
Here's the correct link:
Posts from Paula in thread „2013 John Wayne Birthday Celebration in Winterset, Iowa“
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Hi, all, I have now posted my John Wayne birthday report and all my photos to my Ben Johnson page. Hey, it's on topic!
I met two people at the festival who knew Ben a bit. 
And of course Maureen O'Hara knew him (they made three movies together). Anyway, go here: http://benjohnsonfanpage.shutterfly.com/festivals for the short account of the festival, then scroll down to the photo album. I'll never win an award for photography but I do recommend you open the album and click through on each photo as I have added additional comments to quite a few of the photos.
If you sign in to Shutterfly, then you can download the photos (if you want to). When you download the photo, you'll get a much bigger version. Of course if you don't want to sign into Shutterfly but want the bigger version of a photo, just send me a private message and let me know which one you want and your e-mail. Or if, like me, you get an error message when trying to access private messages, just e-mail me at [email protected].
Enjoy!
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Actually it was the Blu-ray, which looks marvelous!
The Wings of Eagles is not yet available in blu-ray, so that was definitely a DVD. But all the other titles are available in blu-ray and they did look to me like the blu-rays.
There were actually three John Wayne impersonators that I spotted this year, and I did get pictures of the third one, but at the swing dance. He was not at the groundbreaking event, at least I don't remember him there and he's not in my pictures.
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We haven't watched The Quiet Man yet. Hopefully this weekend.
Here are a few pics from the birthday celebration. My cold is better and I hope to have everything up shortly! I'll post when I do.
Author Glenn Frankel
Display in the public library
The Iowa Theater
John T. Wayne (that's his name, he told me) looks on while Aissa Wayne poses with a fan behind the statue of John Wayne
Maureen O'Hara speaks with another John Wayne lookalike. Behind her is her grandson Conor, his wife Elga, and John T. Wayne.
Maureen O'Hara with Joe Zuckschwerdt, President of the John Wayne Birthplace, Aissa Wayne, and Brian Downes, executive director of the John Wayne Birthplace. He's holding the shovel because they're about to have a symbolic groundbreaking for the museum.
Winterset storefront window
The beautiful county courthouse
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What a great birthday event! Glenn Frankel signed my copy of his Searchers book and the banquet was terrific as described. I was sitting near the head tables so I had a good view of the stage and could even see Maureen and Aissa Wayne. Maureen has some very good looking nephews.
I wish I had a spare $5,000 or so so I could bid on those items!
The most startling aspect of the event was that my husband now wants to watch The Quiet Man! He mentioned to two friends I was at the John Wayne birthday celebration, and one told him The Quiet Man was his late mother's favorite film (his mom had passed away just last week)
and the other one started going on and on about what a great film The Quiet Man was. So now my husband, who up to now has shown no interest in John Wayne or John Ford (he knows Maureen O'Hara from Miracle on 34th Street) wants to see The Quiet Man. In fact, he even watched Rio Grande with me last night as it was John Wayne's and Maureen O'Hara's first film together and Ford had to make it in order for Republic to finance The Quiet Man. He liked it -- can't wait to see how he reacts to The Quiet Man. P.S. As usual with plane trips, I have caught a cold but as soon as I can, I will upload photos. None of them are as good as the ones above (I couldn't get that close) but some are still pretty nice.
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What a day! Beautiful weather.And--I wandered over to the John Wayne Birthplace just as Maureen O'Hara made an unscheduled appearance in front of the statue to symbolically break ground for the new museum.(Construction is supposed to start in late summer or sometime in the fall.) She is frail and uses a wheelchair now, but she is still absolutely gorgeous and definitely Maureen O'Hara. I took a lot of great pics which you will all see eventually. Her grandson, his wife and kids were there too as well as Aissa Wayne.
I also met a gentleman who told me that his mother-in-law's brother had been a country-western musician and had known Ben Johnson fairly well.The one thing that he could remember his M-I-L's brother telling him about Ben was that he (the brother) used to visit Ben and they'd have dinner and that Ben LOVED pinto beans and cornbread.:)
Also Rio Grande at the Iowa Theater --they were just projecting the DVD but it was still nice to see on the big screen.Also saw The Wings of Eagles (also DVD).
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LOL......me too. In the Winterset Super8 hotel house that is.:)
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Leaving on a jet plane... (plus rental car) for Winterset, Iowa!
So excited!
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Well, I can't dance to save my life but I sure love that kind of music so I'll be at the dance. Plus I want to have Glenn Frankel sign my copy of his Searchers book.
Has there ever been a John Wayne Birthday celebrating his on-screen partnership with Ben Johnson? If not, they should think about doing that some year. I bet half of Oklahoma would be there!
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Er, that's the page for the standard DVD, not the Blu-ray.
Here's the link for their Quiet Man blu-ray: http://www.importcds.com/movies/2517259/quiet-man
Still pretty cheap -- $14.43. Plus shipping I assume.
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OK, it's official. I'm going! Yay!!
I'm delighted that the Iowa Theatre has upgraded its equipment because the projections I saw there in 2011 were very bad. (Sorry, Iowa Theatre.)
Rio Grande and Big Jake also available on Blu-ray and I hope they use those blu-rays in addition to the blu-ray of The Quiet Man.
Almost five months to bone up on everything Maureen O'Hara.
