My piece on my father’s missing manuscripts and notebooks was published in Beat Scene. Thank you Kevin Ring for highlighting this matter and supporting Mordecai of Monterey! Maybe some of Mordecai’s melanoia (the feeling that good things are going to happen) will grace us all! #keithabbott #keithkumasenabbott #beatscene #beatpoets #mordecai #monterey #longmontcolorado #naropa #persephoneabbott #watergate #zen #buddhism #bouldermennonitechurch #rhinoritz
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…