The one time I saw the Aurora Borealis COMPLETELY (the entire sky eventually being full of it), was October 12, 1977 -- from the end of a snow-plowed road many miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska. We had HOPED to drive up to Arctic Circle (the town's name), for the HOT SPRINGS there as well -- but the road had closed for the winter season two days before.
We smoked a lot of marijuana to get over our disappointment -- then terrorized a "locals bar".
>>> AND NOW, WE RETURN TO THE STORY:
In 1967, when I was 16 and living on Dunsinane Drive in West Chester, PA (See: http://scottkenan.blogspot.mx/2011/05/birnam-wood-done-come-to-dunsinane.html ), my family received copies of BOTH the books THE KENAN FAMILY and KEEPERS OF MEMORIES; [Biographical Sketches of Confederate Widows Living in North Carolina Today, 1961-1965, Plus Other Related Features] shipped together. This caused A LOT OF COMMOTION for several reasons.
1. Keepers of Memories was by my father's FIRST COUSIN!!! My mother RIDICULED IT, reading from it occasionally and LAUGHING at the fate of Southerners (CURRENT lowest asking price for Ruby Kenan Marsh's KEEPERS OF MEMORIES on the Internets is $225.00USD!!!) -- I've written about this before:
"Also in my Discovery Class were (sic), Ryan Stanley, DDS, who KINDLY gave me free full x-rays and would have discounted dental services to me had I been able to remain in town. Dr. Stanley was a GOOD FRIEND of my Dad's first cousin, the noted author and educator, Ruby Kenan Marsh, as well as "Aunt Fanny" in Burgaw, NC. Charlie Boney whose family were HELPED in many ways when THEY were "downtrodden" by the Kenan Family -- who even GAVE FIRST PREZ Boney Hall, HIDING the tiny plaque that reads it is a gift of Kenan Charities so that everyone could THINK that Charlie's Family had been the donor!!!"
From here: http://scottkenan.blogspot.mx/2013/05/after-re-joining-polite-society-puerto.html .
Ryan Stanley, DDS, Wilmington, NC
By the way, Ryan Stanley, DDS is the ONLY person in my First Prez, Wilmington "Discovery Class" who has actually BLOCKED MY EMAILS -- and he did it right after I left Wilmington!!!
>>> I'd better try to get to my POINTS!!!:
1. Although we all browsed the Kenan Family Book, Mom told us all that we were descended from CHARLEMAGNE (the First Holy Catholic Emperor of Europe), so we were SPECIAL CATHOLICS!!! She told us that the RICH Kenans DID inherit a lot of Standard Oil Stock from Henry Flagler -- but they were just "trashy Protestants", so made no nevermind.
On my own, I learned they had founded UNC Chapel Hill with Allied Families, and there was a very PROMINENT picture of Thomas S. Kenan III, age mid-twenties, said to be the "Kenan Family Historian" -- and at his young age, had already completed the FIRST (and truly EXTENSIVE) restoration of Liberty Hall in Kenansville, NC.
He looked like a TOTALLY TRAPPED rich kid in pretentious clothes and bearing. I stared at it and felt DEEPLY SADDENED for him -- but felt I'd made a connection of sorts that I would now call "spiritual" -- and certainly not SEXUAL, although he was ALREADY one of the most sexually active gay men in North Carolina (not actually noted in the book) -- and I had not yet come to terms with ANYTHING like THAT!!!
2. I learned bits and pieces -- especially since my sister Jane went to UNC, Chapel Hill, where I visited her -- and later, as she remained in Raleigh. Then in the late 1980s, the "Chandler Books" on the Kenans, really (but purportedly about Flagler, the second book, then, about the man who murdered Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham).
These changed EVERYTHING for me -- especially since in 1985, I had dated Curtis "Robbie" Anderson -- who had just broken up with Tom Kenan after a LONG relationship -- and this happened COMPLETELY BY CHANCE!!!
Then in 1990, after getting the assistance of James G. Kenan of Atlanta -- and his wife's nephew, Gregg Loomis (an established lawyer and writer), as well as his son Kenan Loomis, law office then in Decatur, GA, I called Tom Kenan at home from his own desk at Kenan Oil in Chapel Hill with the assistance of Lee Shaffer, now CEO of Kenan Advantage Group in Ohio: www.theKAG.com .
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Rafael Cherry, about 10 years ago.
But other forces were at work TOO, and Rafael Cherry friended me in 1991, while we were both at Wrightsville Beach -- and we had an off-and-on sexual relationship over the years, last in 2009.
Rafael Cherry is about the most RAH-RAH graduate that Sewanee ever had. He ALSO eventually became nick-named "The Truman Capote of North Carolina" because the older he got, the most caustic and ugly his negative jabs and humor became. When I last had contact with him about 1.5 years ago, he ADMITTED TO ME that he was totally addicted to narcotic pain meds prescribed by his boyfriend, Andatti Wagner-Gooch, MD, a Czech physician employed in the Research Triangle doing medical research.
More on all THAT -- and how Betty Kenan and ALL OTHER NC DOWAGERS eventually SHUNNED Rafael Cherry -- EXCEPT Elizabeth Edwards (now deceased), former wife to Sen. John Edwards.
IN FACT, John and Elizabeth Edwards sat with Rafael at his kitchen table to decide on Rafael's designs for John's FIRST Presidential Campaign -- Elizabeth INSISTING on them, Rafael HATING JOHN EDWARDS and ALL he stood for (Elizabeth Edwards was actually the POLITICAL and SPIRITUAL OPPOSITE of Sen. John Edwards (this happens to STRAIGHT COUPLES all the time -- they often going for "opposites", nes pas??? ), -- and Rafael Cherry's ONLY REMAINING DOWAGER showing him fealty by then), and Mr. Edwards thinking it was ALL CRAZY, Rafael's style NOT FITTING campaign posters AT ALL!!!
>>> THIS IS WHY I HOPE JOHN EDWARDS WILL REPRESENT ME IN SUING NORTH CAROLINA!!!:
I bet John Edwards has NO IDEA how viciously his wife wanted to destroy him -- and Rafael told me MANY DETAILS!!! NO ONE would have a SHRED of SYMPATHY for Elizabeth Edwards if they knew the TRUTH about her.
Elizabeth Edwards
A TOTAL SEWANEE, NARCO-TRAFFICKING GOD-HATER like Rafael Cherry!!!
Rafael is SO ADDICTED to opiates now, that last time I contacted him, he ADMITTED that he was NOT DYING of inoperable cancer (the reason he said he was always woozy on narcotics), and that he was just "taking Dr. Wagner-Gooch's, MD's prescriptions for FUN!!!"
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Dr. Wagner-Gooch with Rafael Cherry's dog, David.
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Dr. Wagner-Gooch from his employer's website where he is Vice President of Clinical Research at Opaciti:
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