Calamity Jane

I was wondering: is there anything to be found in NY that refers to Calamity Jane? She didn%26#39;t really spend a lot of time there, but you never know....

Calamity Jane

I know nothing about this, Meyem, but spent my whole weekend in Chicago at the end of May singing ';I just got back from the Windy City, the windy city is mighty pretty...'; :)

Calamity Jane

I did some research on your question and was unable to find any links to NYC, although some of the Wild West shows did come through these parts. She is more associated with the West, than with city slickers like us.

We do have Typhoid Mary however. I hope that she is a decent substitute. She was the cook who was first infected with Typhoid, and ';spread the joy around.'; She was a New York original, and is buried in St. Raymond%26#39;s in the Bronx. Here%26#39;s a site that describes Typhoid Mary:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon

Mel, is it %26#39;safe%26#39; to visit there - should we wear surgical masks? Just askin%26#39;

Poppa

Indeed it is safe Poppa, as the ever charming Ms. Mallon has shuffled off this mortal coil. In her time, however, she was a dangerous customer indeed. Here is a statement from Dr. S. Josephine Baker who was sent by the Board of Health to arrest Ms. Mallon:

';Mary was on the lookout and peered out, a long kitchen fork in her hand like a rapier. As she lunged at me with the fork, I stepped back, recoiled on the policeman and so confused matters that, by the time we got through the door, Mary had disappeared. %26#39;Disappear%26#39; is too matter-of-fact a word; she had completely vanished.';

I don%26#39;t think that Calamity Jane had anything on New York%26#39;s Typoid Mary Mallon.

So Mel, that begs the question, who is really buried in St. Raymond%26#39;s??

Perhaps it might be Calamity Jane?

A perplexing situation if there ever was one, eh?

Poppa

I wonder if Mayem dosen%26#39;t actually mean %26#39;Annie Oakley%26#39; who was also with %26#39;Buffalo Bill%26#39;s Wild West Show%26#39; and is much more famous. There%26#39;s a play about Annie Oakley called %26#39;Annie Get Your Gun%26#39;. Was there sometime you saw on television in the Netherlands?

I don%26#39;t think Calamity Jane ever came within over 1,000 miles of New York.

Jeez Poppa, I gotta do everything around here. OK, here is the photo of Mary Mallon%26#39;s grave in the Bronx. However, I do not believe that the Court will allow us to exhume her to satisfy your morbid curiosity. Thus, we can only assume that the mortal remains of the individual so named on the stone, are sequestered beneath.

www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi鈥?/a>

Tomorrow, we deterimine who is buried in Grant%26#39;s Tomb. Exciting stuff kids, exciting stuff.

That used to be my fav question on The Groucho Marx show, You bet your Life!

Mel as long as your not %26#39;doing billable hours%26#39; eh?

thanks for the try, Mel, it was worth a shot (no pun intended ^^)

Who knows I%26#39;ll visit Mary%26#39;s grave. Calamity%26#39;s is a must, some day, and yeah she could up that other lady, but I%26#39;d have to start digging in my books to find a good one :)

@Lotus, Nope, I didn%26#39;t mean Annie. Calamity is definitely more my kinda people...

@Alice, I%26#39;m pretty sure Calamity visited NY at least once. In any case, she did partake in the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo. No idea how many miles that is ^^

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamity_Jane