My wife Mary, who, as you must know by now, is the director of Deadwood's Adams Museum & House, has recently acquired an enormous collection of photos, drawings, maps, correspondence, and other records from the Homestake Mining Co. which was founded by George Hearst. When she asked David Milch in our visit to the set last year for verbal support for the project, David just up and contributed $25,000 toward the project. In gratitude, the Homestake Co. authorized her to send David a framed portrait of George Hearst that has hung in the Homestake offices for over 100 years. He responded with a letter of thanks asking if we wanted some t-shirts and caps. I'm hoping to get one of each to use as prizes for some type of contest on the show. In return I'm sending him a
black Real Deadwood Podcast t-shirt. Since he almost always wears a black t-shirt and khaki pants on the set, I'm hoping maybe he'll wear the RDP shirt from time to time to spread the word about the show to the cast and crew.
Also slated to be prizes for a future RDP contest of some sort are Deadwood mugs celebrating the makeup and hair departments sent to us by our friend John Rizzo, Emmy-winning head of makeup for HBO Deadwood. Audio of his acceptance speech, and of the other four HBO Deadwood Creative Arts Emmy award-winners as well, will appear on a future show.
