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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Explorer who found lost Peru cities dies

RENO, Nev. - Douglas Eugene "Gene" Savoy, an explorer who discovered more than 40 lost cities in Peru and led long-distance sailing adventures to learn more about ancient cultures, has died. He was 80.

Savoy died of natural causes Tuesday at his Reno home, his family said Saturday.

Dubbed the "real Indiana Jones" by People magazine, Savoy was credited with finding four of Peru's most important archaeological sites, including Vilcabamba, the last refuge of the Incas from the Spanish Conquistadors.

Hiram Bingham considered Machu Picchu to be the site of Vilcabamba after he discovered it in 1911 in the Peruvian Andes. But scientific consensus now points toward Espiritu Pampa as the Incas' last stronghold; Bingham also discovered that site but Savoy's excavation work in the mid-1960s found it to be a much larger settlement than originally realized.

In the next 40 years in the jungles of Peru, Savoy discovered more than 40 stone cities of a mysterious pre-Inca civilization known as the Chachapoyas. Among them were Gran Pajaten, Gran Vilaya and Gran Saposoa.

"Scientists thought the existence of these cities and settlements in the Peruvian rainforest was all a myth until my father found them," his son Sean Savoy said. "His discoveries opened up a whole new area of jungle archaeology that didn't exist before."

He said his father suffered hepatitis, was bitten by snakes and chased by guerrilla soldiers during his explorations.

Savoy also took to the sea to test his theories that the Incas, Aztecs and other ancient civilizations had contact with each other. From 1977 to 1982, he used a 60-foot schooner to research possible trade routes in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Savoy wrote dozens of books, including 1970's "Antisuyo: The Search for the Lost Cities of the Amazon" about his early discoveries in Peru, and 1974's "On the Trail of the Feathered Serpent" about some of his sea journeys.

But the bulk of his books and articles concerned another consuming passion: religion.

As founder of a new theology known as "Cosolargy," he established the International Community of Christ, Church of the Second Advent. He taught that the Second Coming of Christ had already become a living reality through a miraculous celestial event.

Savoy was born in Bellingham, Wash., and served as a Navy gunner during World War II. He later was a journalist and newspaper editor in Portland, Ore.

He moved to Reno in 1971 and founded the Andean Explorers Foundation & Ocean Sailing Club based in that city. The nonprofit organization sponsored many of his explorations.

Among other awards, he was honored with medals from the Peruvian Senate and the Peruvian Ministry of Industry and Tourism in the late 1980s. The city of Reno proclaimed "Gene Savoy Day" in October 1996.

Survivors include his children, Gene Jr., Sean and Sylvia Jamila Savoy, and three granddaughters.

By MARTIN GRIFFITH, Associated Press Writer Sun Sep 16, 2:44 AM ET

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Saturday, August 04, 2007

Firehouse mourns their 21 year old cat, Maxine

Illness strikes down firefighters' feline queen By Gloria Negri, Globe Staff August 4, 2007

She was born in an alley outside the Oliver Street firehouse, the only survivor of a litter. The firefighters found her when she was 5 weeks old, a scrawny tiger cat, with a mangled tail and one eye barely intact. They fed her and took her to a veterinarian who amputated her tail. They named her Maxine and gave her their hearts, as well as her own miniature condo, they made out of styrofoam and fleece. At the holidays she had her own Christmas tree.

Maxine, the diva of firehouse cats, died after a 21-year reign at Division I Fire Department Headquarters near South Station.

A photo of firehouse cat Maxine hangs at Division I Fire Department Headquarters. Her scratching posts and brush stand as memorials to her 21-year presence at the station.A photo of firehouse cat Maxine hangs at Division I Fire Department Headquarters. Her scratching posts and brush stand as memorials to her 21-year presence at the station. (DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF)
Also called Max or Maxie, the petite orange and gray cat was put to sleep Thursday after failing health and the ravages of age made that the only humane thing to do, Lieutenant John Forristall said yesterday.

Members of Engine 1 were mourning, particularly retired firefighter Robert Beals of Wellesley, who was around when she was found hiding in a concrete block in the old firehouse in 1986. She made fast friends even among firefighters who professed to not be cat lovers.

They treated Maxine like a queen and in return, she cuddled up in their coats and on their beds. She rid the old Oliver Street firehouse of mice but had more time for napping when they moved to the rodent-free high-rise station on Purchase Street in the early 1990s.

Maxine was no daredevil, Beals said, and preferred hanging out in the firehouse to riding out to fires. "As soon as the truck lights went on, Maxine ran the other way," he said.

In the Oliver Street station where she lived for seven years, Maxine fed her wanderlust and became "well-traveled" around Boston, Beals said.

"She'd walk over the footbridge over the Expressway down to Northern Avenue. We had to pick her up in the conductor's booth at South Station a number of times. Once a woman picked her up at an outdoor event and took her home to Framingham. I had to go out and get her the next day."

In the mid-1990s, Maxine had a tumor on her thyroid, Beals said. "We took her to Angell Memorial and they told us it would cost $1,100 to treat her. Everyone in the firehouse contributed, and she was cured."

There were no plans for a memorial for Maxine, he said, nor for a replacement.

But an oil painting of Maxine hangs in Beals's home, a reminder of his feline pal.

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