Before the movie came out, the number of people who visited the Chattooga was in the hundreds. Afterwards, it was in the tens of thousands. Rafting is now a $20 million industry here and tourism is the area’s number one source of revenue. So you can understand why the organizers of the Chattooga River Festival decided to highlight the film.
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((I know I made a comic a while back that more or less poked fun at the matter of “Deliverance”, but this article sheds...
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