Pocahontas (1995 film) character flowered into the idea of a grandmotherly spiritual adviser to Pocahontas. Because of Katzenberg's opposition to having Grandmother Willow in the story, Joe Grant assisted fellow veteran story artist Burny Mattinson with coming up tree puns such as "My bark is worse than my bite", "The roots of all problems", and "They're barking up the wrong tree." Mattinson reluctantly added them to his pitch for the next morning, and during the story meeting, he exclaimed, "Everybody loved it! All of a sudden: 'Oh, I want her in!' 'Let's build her part bigger!'" In September 1992, Disney began casting actors
Nakoma Golf Resort Nakoma Golf Resort The Nakoma Resort is a golf resort in Mohawk Valley of Plumas County, California. It features a 24,000 square foot clubhouse designed in 1923 by Frank Lloyd Wright at the request of the Nakoma Country Club in Madison, Wisconsin. According to the Madison, Wisconsin Nakoma Resort's website, the clubhouse's design was described as "the most unique building of its kind in America" by the Wisconsin State Journal. Due to the cost of the construction the Country Club did not build Wright's masterpiece. The design was not implemented until 77 years later, when the owners of Taliesin Architect