Persephone Abbott

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Posted on August 28, 2024

This box of Dots”good choice”the cashier saidafter he’d explainedhis black eyeIt was a beautywaltzed rightinto his epidurmis via a tumble down the stairsHe set the candy box aside, pointed his scannerat one of two bookswithout commentreading 1.99My second choice no sticker”This a children’s book?”he asked”Say yes,” he instructed meplacing Billy Collinsback down on the counterDays later I thoughthe hadn’t been too far from the truth.

Persephone August 16 – 27

Posted on August 25, 2024

Travel Blog USA 2024. I am traveling to visit friends and family and to visit Keith Kumasen Abbott’s partial archives at the University of Western Washington in Bellingham where I will discuss my father’s missing materials. Where are they? What did Eldon and Terry Mast do with them? August 16 – 27 Topics Include: A Discussion about Responsibility and Fraudulent Identity The Boarding House on Marion/Aryan Kelton Tim Hildebrand/Keith Kumasen Abbott’s materials Keith’s High School Friends and his Mother’s Oil Paintings The Cutting of Contact/My Mother’s Mental Illness A Visit to Tacoma’s Mountain View Cemetery X-Cel Feedmill/Keith’s poem Leonard Elwood Abbott Jr. Bethlehem Lutheran Church/My Norwegian Grandparents Visiting my Grandmother’s House in Tacoma after 44 Years Looking for Cheap Groceries at Dollar Store Packing…

My Mennonite Heritage: The Ratzlaffs

Posted on August 9, 2024

I have a great fondness for documentation. I always have and I love that I am the present day keeper of my great-great grandfather’s Bible which is in both German and English. It’s precious to me that it has come down through the passages of time and remains in family hands. However, in more recent times, the tragic disppearance of my father’s important archival materials represents not only the loss of the Abbott family archives, but also signifies the mysterious disappearance of materials of some historical importance to the literary world. I am looking for Keith Kumasen Abbott’s missing archival materials which were taken from the house on 1046 Grant Street in Longmont Colorado. Where did it go? Who has it now? But back…