Gathering Territory Trivia #26

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Posted by Diana S. on June 07, 2001 at 17:47:50:

#26 - A literary trivia tidbit or two fer yuns!

* North Carolina born William Sydney Porter was better known as O. Henry.

* Thomas Wolfe's, "Look Homeward, Angel" stunned and offended the people of his hometown, Asheville. Both Wolfe and O.Henry are buried in the Riverside Cemetary in Asheville.

* Carson McCullers finished her first novel, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter", while living in Fayetteville, NC.

* Edna Ferber won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925 for her novel "So Big" while living in Bath , NC (the home of Blackbeard, the pirate). In 1926 she wrote a novel about the people she met at the John Adams Floating Theater in Bath. Unfortunately she changed the setting of "Showboat" to the Mississippi River rather than the Pamlico River.

* Struggling with alcoholism, F. Scott Fitzgerald moved to Asheville in 1936. He lived at the Grove Park Inn in Room 441 and moved his wife, the flamboyant Zelda, from a Baltimore Mental hospital to Highland Hospital near Asheville. During his years there he was said to drink 30 beers a day and once fired a suicide threat shot in the hotel. On another occasion he showed up at the Old Kentucky Home, a boarding house owned and operated by Thomas Wolfe's mother, and tried to rent a room. Julia Wolfe promtly told Mr. Fitzgerald, "I don't rent to drunks", and turned him away. He died at the age of forty-four at the Grove Park Inn , a broken man.

Incidentally, if you are ever able to visit the Grove Park, in the Vanderbilt Wing, just after leaving the Great Hall, is an autographed picture of Daniel Day-Lewis. MMMMmmmmmmmmm! Apparently he stayed there at some time during the filming of LOTM. I go to meetings there from time to time and ALWAYS make my obligatory pass by DDL's picture.

I can't believe it's just six little days,
We'll be livin' and lovin' in the Mohicanite Ways!

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: #26 - A literary trivia tidbit or two fer yuns!

: * North Carolina born William Sydney Porter was better known as O. Henry.

: * Thomas Wolfe's, "Look Homeward, Angel" stunned and offended the people of his hometown, Asheville. Both Wolfe and O.Henry are buried in the Riverside Cemetary in Asheville.

: * Carson McCullers finished her first novel, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter", while living in Fayetteville, NC.

: * Edna Ferber won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925 for her novel "So Big" while living in Bath , NC (the home of Blackbeard, the pirate). In 1926 she wrote a novel about the people she met at the John Adams Floating Theater in Bath. Unfortunately she changed the setting of "Showboat" to the Mississippi River rather than the Pamlico River.

: * Struggling with alcoholism, F. Scott Fitzgerald moved to Asheville in 1936. He lived at the Grove Park Inn in Room 441 and moved his wife, the flamboyant Zelda, from a Baltimore Mental hospital to Highland Hospital near Asheville. During his years there he was said to drink 30 beers a day and once fired a suicide threat shot in the hotel. On another occasion he showed up at the Old Kentucky Home, a boarding house owned and operated by Thomas Wolfe's mother, and tried to rent a room. Julia Wolfe promtly told Mr. Fitzgerald, "I don't rent to drunks", and turned him away. He died at the age of forty-four at the Grove Park Inn , a broken man.

: Incidentally, if you are ever able to visit the Grove Park, in the Vanderbilt Wing, just after leaving the Great Hall, is an autographed picture of Daniel Day-Lewis. MMMMmmmmmmmmm! Apparently he stayed there at some time during the filming of LOTM. I go to meetings there from time to time and ALWAYS make my obligatory pass by DDL's picture.

: I can't believe it's just six little days,
: We'll be livin' and lovin' in the Mohicanite Ways!

: Di

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