Re: A.A.P.C. FOLKLORE, Part Thirty-Seven

> HarryLime wrote:
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>> George J. Dance wrote:
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>>> MMP aka HarryLime aka Michael Pendragon aka Coco DeSockmonkey aka One Small Voice, etc. wrote:
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>> DISCLAIMER - "This isn't history, Donkey, but folklore. It's the stories that have grown up regarding the members of AAPC over the years. They may or may not be entirely true -- THEY MAY NOT EVEN BE TRUE AT ALL." (Emphasis added)
>> - MMP aka HarryLime aka Michael Pendragon aka Coco DeSockmonkey aka One Small Voice, etc., on his "A.A.P.C. Folklore" series.
>> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=632244559&start=120
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> The Ahmos Zu-Bolton incident has been reconstructed as accurately from all the available sources: Will's posts, his high school yearbook, the school magazine, and from Internet bios on Zu-bolton.




The Zu-Bolton folklore is complicated by the fact that Will Dockery's memories don't match up with what evidence is known to exist.  Zu-Bolton was not, as Will claims, the poet-in-residence at Carver High.  He was the Visiting Writer-in-residence at the University of Missouri.  As a part of the Visiting Writer program, Zu-Bolton would travel to various schools in the region, and sit in on one or two of their English classes.

Apparently, Will's teacher, Dan Barfield, introduced Zu-Bolton to the class using his University of Missouri title, and Will mistook him to mean that he was the "Poet-in-Residence" at Carver high.  As previously, no mention of Zu-Bolton appears in the Carver yearbook of the year he was supposedly there.

Will later expanded his story to include such tidbits as Zu-Bolton and Barfield having served together in Vietnam, and how he (Will) would often join the two of them on their nightly carousals of the local bars.

Apart from Will Dockery's stories, there is no evidence to back any of this up. 


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