I do not mean to trivialize someone’s passing. A short article says nothing can be released yet until relatives are notified. “Authorities are investigating an accidental death inside Harpers Ferry National Historical Park…” Nothing really newsworthy.
But it is followed by a historical note, followed by an awesome correction to said historical note:
“An article on Monday about Jack Robison and Kirsten Lindsmith, two college students with Asperger syndrome who are navigating the perils of an intimate relationship, misidentified the character from the animated children’s TV show “My Little Pony” that Ms. Lindsmith said she visualized to cheer herself up. It is Twilight Sparkle, the nerdy intellectual, not Fluttershy, the kind animal lover.”
For what it’s worth, if you go to the wax museum at Harper’s Ferry, the figure in of John Brown in some exhibits does tend to make him look African-American. It’s a very strange feeling to think, “I thought I knew American history pretty well… but nobody ever told me that John Brown was black! And I learned this from a wax museum that gets maybe 40 visitors a day, tops!”
