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The Rosewood Casket:
An Introduction andall Stargill's four son's have gathered at their mountain farm to build a coffin for their dying father. His passing causes a dilemma for his sons, who must come to terms with their dysfunctional family, and also decide what to do with the farm, which has been Stargill land since 1790. Only Clayt, the youngest, a naturalist and Daniel Boone Re-enactor, who loves the land like a latter-day pioneer, wants to save the farm from a real estate developer bent on despoiling the mountain. For Appalachian wise woman Nora Bonesteel, Randall's sweetheart of long ago,
his imminent death poses another problem: the small box that must be buried with
Randall, as she tells his family. When the Stargills open the box and find the
bones of a child, Sheriff Spencer Arrowood is brought into the matter, but Nora
refuses to say where she obtained the bones, or to whom they belonged. The sheriff
dreads charging Nora Bonesteel for murder, even more than he dreads evicting
his old friends the Stallards from their farm, which has been bought for unpaid
taxes by the same real estate developer who wants the Stargill place.But land is more than a place to the people of the Southern mountains--land is who they are; as much blood kin as the folks in the family cemetery. Their Celtic forebears were willing to die for the land, as were the Cherokees who came before the settlers. Now the settlers' descendants must lose the land--but, as always, someone will die in the process. The Rosewood Casket Movie Update: James Bond Has Kidnapped Our Director  Roberto Schaefer, who will direct the film version of "The Rosewood Casket" for LizCat Films, announced on June 20 that he will be shooting the next James Bond movie (as cinematographer) with his old partner Marc Forster directing.Roberto will leave for Italy soon to begin scouting and prep for the James Bond film, and then on to the U.K. for filming. This new commitment will delay the filming of The Rosewood Casket until next spring, but we are all thrilled that Roberto has this wonderful opportunity, and that he will come back even more famous. As producer Rebecca Tudor-Foley put it, "We're simply delayed because James Bond kidnapped our director, but he'll be returned to us soon." Meanwhile, Roberto's latest film "The Kite Runner" will be in theatres soon, so you can see his wonderful cinematography and get an idea of how lucky we are to have him on board for "The Rosewood Casket." Movie Option Acquired by Lizcat Films of New York Lizcat Films has acquired the option for screen rights to The Rosewood Casket. "We are honored that an author of Sharyn’s calibre has chosen our new independent organization to bring her fabulous story to life on the screen," Lizcat producer and principal Rebecca Tudor-Foley said. Read the press release issued by Lizcat Films. Casting Underway For The Rosewood Casket; Locations For Filming Being Scouted Casting for The Rosewood Casket has begun in Los Angeles, with director Roberto Schaefer expected to finalize his choices for lead roles within "the next month or two." Read the press release issued by Lizcat Films. Hollywood Comes to the Blue Ridge Sharyn McCrumb's Day with the Producer and Director "On January 25th, I spent a delightful day playing tour guide in the snow to producer Rebecca Tudor-Foley of Lizcat Films and Roberto Schaefer, a director from Hollywood. They are making a movie of my novel The Rosewood Casket, and they were scouting locations around Asheville and in southwest Virginia.
Playing tour guide for them was a joy. I was fully prepared to be polite and humble before Jon Lovitz in a velvet smoking jacket and Foster Grants, but the first thing Roberto said to me was, "I hear you're into NASCAR. I'm a Formula One guy, and I used to film road race courses." Be still my heart. So we talked about Juan Montoya going into Cup racing, and I told him about my ridealong in a race car last summer at Lowes Motor Speedway. We had a great time. It's probably a good thing he did have professional driving experience, because we spent all day zipping over steep mountain roads in the snow in a four-wheel drive. In order to take them to lunch in Paint Bank, in the restaurant that has a swinging bridge and a trout stream inside it, we had to cross a very high icy mountain, where one skid would have meant that we would become not only history but geography. On Rt. 42 in Craig County, I showed them the old farmhouse that — in my imagination — really was the Stargill farmstead in The Rosewood Casket, and New Castle, Virginia looks the way I always pictured Hamelin in the Ballad novels. So they have now seen the movie-in-my-head. We did talk about casting, and they are considering some impressive actors for this movie — which I probably shouldn't mention, because nothing is set in stone, yet, but they hope to finish the film this year. That's all I really know at this point. But showing them around was a wonderful adventure, and I hope they choose to shoot the film here in Virginia." - Sharyn McCrumb Scripture Cake Recipe described in The RosewoodCasket 4 ½ cups: 1 Kings 4:22 1 cup: Judges 5:25 
2 cups: Jeremiah 6:202 cups: 1 Samuel 30:12 2 cups: Nahum 3:12 2 cups: Numbers 17:8 2 tbsp: 1 Samuel 14:25 pinch: Leviticus 2:13 ½ cup: Judges 4:19 2 tbsp: Amos 4:5 6 of: Jeremiah 17:11 2 Chronicles 9:9 to taste Mix like a fruitcake and bake at 350° for 50 minutes, or until done.  |
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