Her name was spoken by
those who knew of her skills with great reverence. Indeed, Queen Elizabeth awarded her the
British Empire Medal to celebrate and acknowledge her work — she apologized for
not being able to attend the ceremony and meet Her Majesty as there was no one
about to care for her dog in her absence.
The Queen understood and took no slight.
Prince Charles, who was a
fan of her handcrafted work (her finished products had names like Green Butt
and the Woolly Hugger), would later journey to Scotland and present the British
Empire Medal to her in person. Think
about that for a moment — the likely future King of England journeying to Scotland
to seek out a commoner. Such high praise
indeed!
Virgil Films &
Entertainment will open Q1’14 with the Jan. 7 DVD debut of documentary
filmmaker Eric Steel’s Kiss the Water, a loving tribute to
the late goddess of salmon fishing lures, Megan Boyd.
In the remote Scottish
village of Kintradwell (about 40 miles north of Inverness in the northern most
reaches of Scotland) Megan Boyd fashioned the most incredible Atlantic salmon
fishing lures known to man. Her work
was coveted by both those fished the golden trophy and those who sought the
lures for their art.
She created her lures;
her art in a hut by the shore and lived nearby without modern conveniences —
including electricity — and never sold her work to the locals for more than the
equivalent of a dollar during the five decades that she toiled at her craft.
However, her individual
fishing lures — just small trinkets — are now valued by collectors at over a
thousand dollars each … and the irony of it all, she never caught or killed a
salmon!!!
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