WOLFE TONE FOLLOWUP Público Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 23, June 3, 2001, Article 7
WOLFE TONE FOLLOWUP
Saul Teichman writes: "I would like to thank those who
responded regarding the Wolfe Tone trial. I have forwarded
the information to Douglas Mudd at the Smithsonian and
placed the responses at the bottom of the original webpage.On the pattern front, I have added color images of all the die
and hub trials in the Library Company of Philadelphia to the
uspatterns.com website. I think your subscribers, especially
those interested in Gobrecht dollars, will find some of these
especially interesting. Thanks again.http://uspatterns.com/uspatterns/libcomofphil.html
Nine new or misdescribed issues were discovered which
are summarized on the page below.http://uspatterns.com/uspatterns/9newsplasfou.html "
Steve Pellegrini adds: "Does Harold know that the actor
Franchot Tone was a direct descendant of Wolfe Tone?
Or that one day in 1959 Franchot Tone and some friends
walked into McSorley's Bar in New York City for a couple
of 'pops.' Inside they found Irish playwright Brendan Behan
holding court at the bar. Behan was in town with the cast of
his play 'The Quare Fella' which was running off Broadway
at the time.Tone, in the casual American way, greeted Behan with,
"Well, hello Brendan, you old S.O.B." Having never made the
actor's acquaintance Behan took this as a maternal slight and
walloped Tone with a haymaker - knocking him right on his
ass. Of course, he was told who he'd decked and his
connection to the great Wolfe Tone. Contrite, Behan helped
Tone up, brushed him off and threw an arm around him. For
the rest of the afternoon Behan serenaded his new friends
with Rebel Songs and bottomless pints of Stout."- 2001-06-03
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