Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] excuse me
Date: Jun 18, 2001 @ 16:36
Author: Doug Murray ("Doug Murray" <dmurray@...>)
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Hello all:

Just finished attending the Banff Television Festival in Banff, Alberta
(I'm still in Calgary).

I was there to meet the people that make, buy, finance television programming.
And to pitch some doco ideas (GCEBE, Narva, Estonia, etc).

I found lots of interest in the ideas... but surprisingly, not for individual
documentaires, but a 13 part series on borders. How's that for a twist?

So, fellow border freaks, I am looking for 13 great border stories.
I'd like to come up with a balance of fun/serious stories. I'm thinking
CA-US, US-MX (The new Berlin wall), RU-ES (Narva), NE-BE (Baarle), IN-PK
(Kashmir), and so on.

And, of course, I welcome suggestions. :)

I heard a story as well, and wonder if any of you have heard it: when
Israel was created, a think pencil was used to draw the shape of the
new state. Apparently, the pencil line went through a town on what would
become the Israel-Egypt border. However, the lead of the pencil was
thich enough that the line completely covered the dot marking the town.
And, the location of the town has been in dispute ever since.

Has anyone heard this story?

Doug