By Ben Greenman
from forthcoming collection, as yet untitled
The postponed wedding of Arthur Windon, born at Marion but raised in Ramona, and Laura Morris, daughter of the late W.J. Morris, of Brewer Square, was solemnized yesterday morning at St. James Church. This wedding should have taken place on Wednesday morning last but it was found at the last moment that the bride had been deceiving everyone as to her history, and that she was not in fact a famous aviatrix who had recently completed a Transatlantic solo flight, as she had repeatedly claimed, often producing photographs to that effect in which she identified herself as the goggled figure in the foreground and remarked upon her adventure by saying “That’s me, and that’s the sky,” or “I think I emulated Markham more than Earhart, and both more than Lindbergh” or “I was scared, of course, but I was brave, and that turned out to be more important”—the statements varied, but the intent remained the same, which was to reinforce the previously established idea that she had flown the plane in the photograph from Abingdon to Cape Breton Island—but was instead a barista at a coffee shop. The bride was given away by her uncle, Percy Linnett.
The postponed wedding of Arthur Windon, born at Marion but raised in Ramona, and Laura Morris, daughter of the late W.J. Morris, of Brewer Square, was solemnized yesterday morning at St. James Church. This wedding should have taken place on Wednesday morning last but it was found at the last moment that the bride had been deceiving everyone as to her history, and that she was not in fact a famous aviatrix who had recently completed a Transatlantic solo flight, as she had repeatedly claimed, often producing photographs to that effect in which she identified herself as the goggled figure in the foreground and remarked upon her adventure by saying “That’s me, and that’s the sky,” or “I think I emulated Markham more than Earhart, and both more than Lindbergh” or “I was scared, of course, but I was brave, and that turned out to be more important”—the statements varied, but the intent remained the same, which was to reinforce the previously established idea that she had flown the plane in the photograph from Abingdon to Cape Breton Island—but was instead a barista at a coffee shop. The bride was given away by her uncle, Percy Linnett.
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