E-mail David Christopher Lane
directly at dlane@weber.ucsd.edu
Author: David Christopher Lane Publisher: Alt.religion.eckankar Publication date: 1996
E-mail David Christopher Lane
directly at dlane@weber.ucsd.edu
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want to go back to the home base now.
Another view of Twitchell's early life from a Newspaper account not connected to David Lane: In Tipton's 1982 article about Twitchell (and very informative about his early life and completely unrelated to my own study) he writes the following: "John Howard Twitchell [says} 'It's a good thing my daddy wasn't living; he would have beat the hell out of him [Paul Twitchell]" Why? Because Twitchell lied about his family history. Further in the article (please remember this is Wilson's piece and not mine--they are unrelated): "Mattie Twitchell vigorously defends the family integrity while making it abundantly clear that she regards Paul [Twitchell] as the black sheep. She will get down the family Bible to show you the listing that Jacob Paul Twitchell was born in 1910, three years after her husband, and obviously named for his father." Further on the article states: "Paul was in and out of Paducah after leavng college,' Mrs. Twitchell said. 'He was here during the 1937 flood. I never knew of him making a living. When he started writing, Camille had to correct everything he wrote." Further on: "Paul was born in Paducah," she says. "It wasn't true that he was born on a riverboat. THE STORIES ABOUT HIS SISTER TRAVELING TO EUROPE WEREN'T TRUE [my emphasis]. I don't know what his parents would have thought had they been living when all these books came out." (see the article via micro-film for more details) More to come...... This is Wilson's piece, not Lane's and was conducted by the newspaper reporter in Kentucky.
