MEETUP: Holiday Dessert & COKtails
Friday, December 14 at 6:30 p.m.
Mozart's Bakery & Piano Cafe
2885 N. High St.
Columbus, Ohio 43202
(614) 268-3687
(Mozart's has non-dessert food, too!)
We've got three RSVPs so far, Spirit of Life, Silvia Nightshade and me. Please drop a comment below or send me a Kosmail if you can come.
See here for photos of our meetup last month.
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Did you know: The name William Sidney Porter doesn't ring many bells, but that's what famous short story writer O. Henry was known as when he became inmate #30664 [of the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus] in 1898. Porter was a federal prisoner from Texas. He was convicted of embezzlement (a crime he most likely didn't commit at all; an audit years after his time as a teller and bookkeeper at the First National Bank of Austin turned up discrepancies and they gladly laid the blame at his feet). He was already an experienced writer when he turned himself in and was admitted to the big house on March 25, 1898. Inside he worked as the night druggist (he was a licensed pharmacist) and got his own room, never having to live in the common cell block. One of the many stories he wrote at the Pen, "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking," was the first to bear the O. Henry pseudonym. He's best known for "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Ransom of Red Chief." The prison baseball field completed in 1970 was named O. Henry Field.