RP: As God's Punishment for My Profligate Ways, My WORLD Collapsed Overnight!!!

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Yes, the "high design" rotting umbrella that I had bought from some drug-nuts (one of which was the BEST sex partner I've had in Mexico -- of only four, none recently), collapsed due to termites in its wooden arm, but revealing how rotted it all really was.

Martin Jacobo (the fun one), and "Sonny", who is currently jailed and I HOPE gets extradited to the USA where he has major crimes tied to his fingerprints.

>>> BUT I HAD WARNING OF PENDING DOOM LAST NIGHT: Because of a storm that has now gone on for two days, the reception of the Super Bowl kept coming and going with lots of pixelation, so I missed a lot -- but I DID see John Waters in a SNICKERS commercial with the Brady Bunch (all half-decolorized).

And the press reports that MANY thought Steve Buscemi (who actually appeared in that ad), is looking TOO MUCH LIKE John Waters now, Waters actually pictured here.


Paul McCartney was shown in the stands, last night, causing my cats and I to barf, and a commercial showed how a married couple saved their marriage using LOCTITE GLUE to sort of conjoin them.

>>> AN EMAIL EXCHANGE:


Hi Bob,

Sorry to hear about John Shupp. I remember Doug Rabin as a "right smart Jew" (correctly or not), and Owen as being compact and very athletic -- and I always thought his name was so cool -- Owen Coghlan. Must be Irish or Welsh.

But let's have some fun with this (since my life collapsed overnight, which I will blog about shortly and include some fun here). Imagine if he had been Owen KENAN -- not Thomas S. Kenan III's only full brother who died early and mysteriously, but Dr. Owen Hill Kenan, a lifelong bachelor, who had been Henry Flagler's personal physician. 

Owen Graham Kenan died mysteriously in his fifties, leaving his wife Sterling (called "Squirty" -- even by the Old Dowagers at First Presbyterian, Wilmington -- due to some part of her known to squirt prematurely, and apparently fun being had by ALL!!!)

"Squirty" Kenan with her daughter, Sterling (Kenan) McCracken

Think about it. Flagler really got feeble in his very advanced age. The guy who ran all his Florida adventures was Wm. R. Kenan, Jr., his wife was Mary Lily Kenan, and his doctor Owen Hill Kenan.

Owen Hill Kenan, MD

They all lived in Whitehall, now the Flagler Museum, http://www.flaglermuseum.us/, and it's time to put the poor fella out of his misery and GET THE INHERITANCE. So, yes, like Scarlett Ohara, he took a tumble from the top of the stairs. Now I've never heard anyone claim this, but it certainly COULD have happened via a push.

The main staircase at Whitehall looks so gentle, they either had to ROLL him down, or it was another staircase.

But Owen Kenan went on, quickly, to some amazing things. Not only is he listed as the LAST survivor of the sinking of the Lusitania (I'm not certain exactly what that means), but he ran off to France to drive an ambulance in WWI long before the US got involved, and ended up being the FIRST EVER recipient of the "French Medal of Honor" ever given to a NON-French citizen, and while living in France after the war, he also maintained palatial homes in New York, Palm Beach, and Wilmington, where he was known as a total eccentric and walked around with his walking stick that had a solid gold lion's head -- and hid a gun.

Unidentified (left), with Jessie (Kenan) Wise -- the Wises then founding Flagler College in St. Augustine under the Lewis surname due to marriage, http://www.flagler.edu/, and her sister, Sarah Kenan, who married her first-Kenan-cousin to avoid spending to print new stationary (and he died within a year).

This, while Mary Lily's family were all riding around Wilmington, North Carolina in Norma Desmond limousines and waving jeweled lorgnettes and cigarette holders, while my father and his sister (the only other Kenans in town, then), walked often barefoot, they were so poor. I understand why Dad hated them all so much.

And of course the parents moved to a mansion on Third Street, all but next door to house where Stanley Winborne III of the Puerto Vallarta Writers Group grew up!!!

Jessie (Kenan) Wise as an Old Dowager

And I just emailed a former Kenan truck driver in North Georgia, who in the eighties learned too much and was not just fired but blackballed from good jobs all these years. He's now back in touch with some of his old driver-friends in Atlanta, and got NO death threats recently -- like he used to. And the close-to-the-wealthiest-Kenans guy who sold me the 1999 book on the family, told me that in recent decades, the wealthiest ones have TOTALLY SNUBBED their fairly close relatives, and none of them understand why.

1964 Rolls Royce Phantom V -- perhaps Frank's was newer.

But to finish this, I've also heard from Kenan drivers that Frank Hawkins Kenan used to pull them over in his Rolls Royce on back roads in NC -- just to exude pride and confidence, but also to show off his walking stick with the gun inside it -- LOL!!!

KENANS!!!

SDK

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Bob Jones wrote:

Just a tap in, I’ve spoken to Owen recently as well, and I believe John Shupp passed sometime ago.

A BIG KENAN MESS (also showing Kel)

Scott

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