Father Meehan November 6, 1932

Father_Meehan_11-6-1932_17DEC0231.pdf

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Title

Father Meehan November 6, 1932

Subject

2 photos of Ed Meehan DS17 shooting at tin cans, near Deep Springs Lake

Description

Ed Meehan became a Roman Catholic priest, hence the "Father Meehan" title, would have been visiting

Creator

Walter Balderston DS30

Source

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Collection 37/4/1770, Lucien L Nunn papers, [ca. 1890-1971], Box 33

Publisher

n/a

Date

November 6, 1932

Contributor

Dens Clark

Rights

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Relation

n/a

Format

PDF file

Language

n/a

Type

Still image

Identifier

17DEC0231

Coverage

Deep Springs

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

photographic print

Physical Dimensions

approximately 3 x 5 in.

Notes

The name rang a bell. In Bob Aird's memoir, "Deep Springs - its founder, history, and philosophy with personal reflections," he spends a fair amount of time discounting any homosexual behavior by LL Nunn's as "highly improbable". On p. 91, he writes, "I am aware of only two individuals whose names have been specifically proposed as LL's possible lovers. The first is Father Mehan [sic], a Catholic priest and well-known homosexual in San Francisco, who was later defrocked by his archbishop." A little online searching does not find anything independent along these lines. Aird's book does not meet the critical standards of history, but here it is, in case someone is picking up these threads again. DEC, 1/2017.

Archive

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Collection 37/4/1770, Lucien L Nunn papers, [ca. 1890-1971], Box 33

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