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From 1910 to 1919,
New Orleans suffered at the hands
of its very own Jack the Ripper. The
Axeman repeatedly broke into
the homes of Italian grocers in the
dead of night, leaving his victims
in a pool of blood. The story has
been the subject of websites, short
stories, novels, a graphic novel,
and, most recently, the FX
television series, American
Horror Story.
Miriam C. Davis will join the Cigar
Society of Chicago this coming
Tuesday to tell us about her own
investigation into the gruesome
murders, sympathetic victims,
accused innocents, public panic, and
the New Orleans mafia, based on an
examination of all available
sources. She writes,
This has been a different kind of
history than I was trained to
write in graduate school. I wanted
to write something analytical that
would be fully grounded in the
sources but would also appeal to a
wide audience by telling a story
rather than merely being an
analysis of a list of murders.
While I've tried to tell the story
as what is sometimes called
creative or narrative nonfiction,
I've stayed true to my obligations
as a historian.
Booklist gave Axeman a
starred review, calling it, “A
riveting story of a serial-killer
investigation in a time long before
modern-day investigative techniques,
or even the term ‘serial killer,’
was invented.”
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FREE and
ONLINE
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
5:30-7:00 pm CDT
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Sign in 5:00-5:30 pm for
informal cigar and cocktail chatter.
The event will be
called to order at 5:30.
There will be a Q&A session
following the lecture. Audience
participation is invited.
The event will conclude at 7 pm.
An optional cocktail party and
discussion will continue after the
event.
Be sure to have your
cocktails and cigars at ready
hand.
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A
native of Mobile, Alabama, Miriam
C. Davis graduated from Emory
University with a degree in history.
She studied at both the University
of St. Andrews (Scotland) and the
University of York (England) before
earning a Ph.D. in history from the
University of California, Santa
Barbara. After teaching for sixteen
years at Delta State University, she
is now a freelance writer and
ghostwriter and in the summer
lectures for Smithsonian Journeys on
tours of Ireland, Scotland, and
England. She is currently ghosting Not
As Conquerors: The Story of the
3rd Battalion 23rd Marines in the
First Days of Occupied Iraq
with Colonel David Couvillon, USMCR
(Ret.).
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About
the
Cigar Society of Chicago
ONE OF THE OLDEST AND
greatest traditions of the city clubs of
Chicago is the discussion of intellectual,
social, legal, artistic, historical,
scientific, musical, theatrical, and
philosophical issues in the company of
educated, bright, and appropriately
provocative individuals, all under the
beneficent influence of substantial
amounts of tobacco and spirits. The
Cigar Society of Chicago
embraces this tradition and extends it
with its Informal Smokers, University
Series lectures, and Cigar
Society Dinners, in which cigars,
and from time to time pipes and
cigarettes, appear as an important
component of our version of the classical
symposium. To be included in the
Cigar Society's mailing list, write to the
secretary at
curtis.tuckey@logicophilosophicus.org
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