Just the one in my skull.
I actually do have one of the hatchets, plus one of her books, and some photos.
You’ve got the basic story right. It is also alleged she was baptised by the Holy Spirit, and spoke in tongues while in a trance.
I’m not sure its fair to compare her to Sheehan, since Sheehan barely cared for that boy of hers, and only had an opinion it seems once he was dead.
She got whacked around by her husband at the time, and decided she’d had it. Better to compare it to a ‘Thelma and Louise’ thing without the undertones of homosexuality or suicide.
Still, she had a legitimate beef at the time. It’ll interest you to know that her grandnewphew was a stone alcoholic, as was his father. He served in the Navy in the Pacific theater in what was the Underwater Demolition Team, but before there was one. He’d swim under ships, attach bombs, and then swim away as fast as he could.
His ship was attacked by a kamikaze, and he jumped three decks to avoid being killed by it. He was a teatotaler going into to the war, and an alcoholic coming out of it. Never talked about the war. What I did learn I got from one of his medals, the citation accompanying it.
Still the irony of him being an alcoholic.
Funny, how they are trying to elminate smoking, but drinking, well, that’s been tried.
I drink myself, but I’m not sure that was the point of her life, to be against drinking.