Friday, February 06, 2009

Life Imitates "Art"

Re-enactor Is Indicted in Shooting of a Yankee - NYTimes.com: "The mysterious shooting of a would-be Yankee cavalryman from the Bronx during the filming of a Civil War re-enactment in Virginia in September has been solved, according to the authorities, with the indictment of a latter-day Johnny Reb who, they say, accidentally fired a .44-caliber ball from an 1860 Army Colt pistol that was supposed to be empty."

They should read that classic novel Murder in the Mist by Willard Scott.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Damn, that Scott guy can really write!

mybillcrider said...

He's one of my favorites.

Todd Mason said...

It's remarkable what the writing life has in store for one.

I shall have to seek this out...of all people to have the byline...

Fred Blosser said...

Didn't Elmore Leonard's TISHIMINGO BLUES also have a bit about a shooting during a Civil War reenactment? But I think "Willard" was first in that instance too.