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A Package from Keith’s Friend Tim Hildebrand
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Read More →: A Package from Keith’s Friend Tim HildebrandIt is a very kind gesture and I appreciate it. Author and photographer Tim Hildebrand sent package of my father’s materials, books and photos, and even a copy of his own book, Rotwang. I am looking forward to reading it!
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A Poem: Leonard Elwood Abbott Jr.
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/ PoemRead More →: A Poem: Leonard Elwood Abbott Jr.This poem by Keith Kumasen Abbott appeared in Erase Words and is read by Persephone Abbott. The video is a view of the back of X-Cel Feeds Inc in Tacoma which was founded by Leonard Elwood Abbott Sr and business associates in 1965. Leonard Sr died in 1967.
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What About the New Cover to the Mordecai of Monterey?
Read More →: What About the New Cover to the Mordecai of Monterey?It’s coming up to the fifth year anniversary of Keith Kumasen Abbott’s death. In honor of my father I have re-released his comic novel Mordecai of Monterey. Working with a friend, the new cover is a reflection of the original cover. Water was a significant theme in my father’s later art work. His ashes were…
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Who Was The Widow Lazarchuk?
Read More →: Who Was The Widow Lazarchuk?In Keith Kumasen Abbott’s comic novel Mordecai of Monterey a character by the name of the Widow Lazarchuk is presented. Knowing that Keith often inserted his friends into his novels, I looked up the name Lazarchuk and came to the conclusion that the Widow Lazarchuk was a bit of a “wink” towards the punk rock…
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Who was Mordecai?
Read More →: Who was Mordecai?Who was the role model for Mordecai of Monterey? None other than Michael Sowl, the poet! And just how was it possible edit and prepare Keith Kumasen Abbott’s comic novel for (re)publication?
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Where are Keith Kumasen Abbott’s friends?
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/ MysteryRead More →: Where are Keith Kumasen Abbott’s friends?What’s missing in the archives? My father’s records of his friendships. Why? Because my mother may have edited the archives. My father should be allowed to speak for himself and I encourage the person or persons who have these missing materials to send them to the archives at the University of Western Washington at Bellingham.…
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Why Did Keith Kumasen Abbott’s Archival Materials Disapear?
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/ MysteryRead More →: Why Did Keith Kumasen Abbott’s Archival Materials Disapear?I am looking for my father’s archival material that was intended to reach the archive of the University of Western Washington at Bellingham in Washington State. I will be going there in September of 2024 to review the material that the archives did receive. I have already been there briefly once in 2021. Why did…
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Searching for Keith Kumasen Abbott in the Artic Circle?
Read More →: Searching for Keith Kumasen Abbott in the Artic Circle?This is my summer project — the novel that is — but I suspect that the missing materials will take longer than a summer to find.