Powell's Remains

[Natty]

(11-01-2012 03:13 PM)MaddieM Wrote:  

(11-01-2012 02:41 PM)BettyO Wrote:  OK -- I defer to ya'll...... I was just wondering why they'd try and make a "spooky" thing out of it! Hopefully, it was historically accurate....

People do odd things. But I guess as Natty said, all publicity is good publicity. They might have given your book a mention though.

Luckily, Betty's book is one of the first things you find online if you Google Lewis. So I'm hoping they'll find their way to it!

[RJNorton]

Many thanks to Jim Garrett for sending this photo. Jim was recently in Rock Creek Cemetery, and he came upon a body he first thought might be Lewis Powell. However, upon further inspection, it turned out to be Dave Taylor taking a nap. Note: If you look back from the body (in-line with the tree), there is a gravestone marked "Lewis."

[BettyO]

OMG!!! That's hysterical ! Thanks for a good laugh -

Only thing - this couldn't be "Lew" - he has a head..... !

[LincolnMan]

Thought maybe it was a corpse but because it was the holidays-the grave workers were on holiday!

[LincolnMan]

It seems Lew Powell's head has popped up again-this time on the cover of a new book. See: http://www.amazon.com/When-Wilkes-Booth-...es+booth#_

My question is: Why? The book's title doesn't indicate the subject matter as being about Lew Powell but Lew Wallace. Well, without having read the book-who knows? Anyone familiar with it?

[BettyO]

Oh no.....NOT again!!

This is the same author who wrote a couple of books insinuating that <ahem> Powell was "gay".....

He wrote something called Another Sunny Day - the supposed (and badly written) southern dialect ALONE would keep one from reading it!!

There is another one by the same author about John Wilkes Booth's Paid Companion or something along the same lines - I haven't read it but found a copy in a used book store, thumbed through it, and promptly put it back down!

Nothing could be further from the truth.... the boy was in love and engaged to be married to a lady! So now I see he's written another one.... OOOOKKKKK.....!! So, I'll chill....it's just a novel after all.....

[LincolnMan]

Wow Betty-I'm glad you're on top of things! I just couldn't imagine why Lew's pic would on the cover-it seemed odd to me.

[BettyO]

HA! Thanks, Bill....gotta stay on top of these things. Silly as they may be....

[Linda Anderson]

(01-06-2013 09:06 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Wow Betty-I'm glad you're on top of things! I just couldn't imagine why Lew's pic would on the cover-it seemed odd to me.

I think they put Lew's picture on the cover of the book to draw attention to it. Lew has quite a striking face, especially in that photo.

[Gene C]

What luck, this is the first book in his trilogy
I noticed that "When Jack the Ripper met Ben Hurr" is also in the works by this author

[Thomas Thorne]

The specter of Lew Wallace meeting JWB is too good to be true. Betty O writes an honest book about LTP and keeps her day job. Someone writes about Abraham Lincoln fighting vampires and makes a fortune.

Maybe we'll see a book called "Billy the Kid meets Lincoln" in which we find Billy as a precocious 5 year old acting as a look out for the conspirators as part of a Faginesque gang of street urchins recruited by John Wilkes Booth. Perhaps this was the "New York crowd" alluded to by George Atzerodt.

I fell asleep 10 minutes into the Mexican epic "Billy the Kid meets Dracula" in which Dracula-AKA John Carradine who played Lincoln in "Of Human Hearts" and spares James Stewart from a firing squad-takes refuge in a wagon train after seducing and killing an Indian princess with her tribe in hot pursuit.

Does this mean Lincoln became a vampire after his death and Stanton hushed it up?
Tom

[RJNorton]

I had a few brief contacts with author William Russo in c.1999. He uses the word "mythography" to describe his books. He once sent me Another Sunny Day which Betty mentioned in a previous post. I highly doubt the price on Amazon is accurate, but I will hold on to it, and down the road, my daughter can decide what to do with it.

[BettyO]

Quote:What luck, this is the first book in his trilogy
I noticed that "When Jack the Ripper met Ben Hur" is also in the works by this author.

Hey! New Conspiracy Theory.....perhaps Lew Powell DIDN'T attack Seward - we can put the blame on Jack the Ripper AKA Francis Tumblety!

[Jim Garrett]

I'm thinking of doing "Pat Garrett and George St. Helen"

[RJNorton]

Didn't author Vaughan Shelton say there were two Lewis P.'s? I wonder which one really attacked Seward....

Maybe your guy didn't do it, Betty.