Kimberly Tilley rescues forgotten stories of early twentieth century America from obscurity. Her books, Grievous Deeds (2023); Has it Come to This? (2022), Cold Heart (2020), and The Poisoned Glass (2019) were Amazon category best-sellers in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and India.
Kimberly owns OldSpirituals.com. She's very grateful for the wonderful community and two outstanding contributors to help fulfill the site's mission of rescuing fascinating stories from obscurity.
Kimberly is the cofounder of Pivot Talent Development LLC, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. PIVOT offers workshops, training, consulting, and coaching to help professionals improve performance, drive business impact, and transcend limitations.
Kimberly owns OldSpirituals.com. She's very grateful for the wonderful community and two outstanding contributors to help fulfill the site's mission of rescuing fascinating stories from obscurity.
Kimberly is the cofounder of Pivot Talent Development LLC, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. PIVOT offers workshops, training, consulting, and coaching to help professionals improve performance, drive business impact, and transcend limitations.
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Musical accompaniment: Flowers on the Wall by the Statler Brothers
Big thank you to my friend Todd for sending over this brief article which proves a story doesn’t need to be long to be interesting!
From a 1938 edition of the Oregonian:
The Oregonian
The old expression, “Look death in the eye,” seems an appropriate headline for the story.
That’s a good one. Kind of funny the guy felt the need to go and check, isn’t it?
Who said “the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”?
Mark Twain, a.k.a Samuel Clemens.
I think Ernest Hemingway also got to read his own obituary. He was traveling by plane in Africa and there was a crash. He survived but the papers only heard about the crash at print time and wrote his obituary for him.