August 18 is Meriwether Lewis‘ birthday!!!
It’s the first year I’ve celebrated.
No. Really.
MTM put together really cool postcards with Lewis’ face on them. We planned to send them out to almost five hundred people.
Including most of you.
A more personal way to remember someone who lived life like a sparkler.
Only, I’ve been buried in a rewrite, and MTM has been obliterated by work. Between the two of us, we couldn’t get the postcards to print. They kept hanging up in the collator.
So, in spite of not having very cool Meriwether Lewis postcards in your mailboxes today, I hope you will stop for a few seconds. Maybe a minute or two. And remember his life.
I’m sure Merry would like that.
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TODAY’S MERIWETHER LEWIS BIRTHDAY MONTH TRIVIA QUESTION:
WHAT YEAR WAS MERIWETHER LEWIS BORN?
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What’s the best birthday gift you can give Merry? Why, it’s helping a new reader discover his story. Give Lewis a present by surprising someone in your life with a book. To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis is just $2.99 on Kindle during August in celebration of Meriwether Lewis’ Birthday Month.
Click here to read an excerpt.
Or click below to buy it.
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To check out the entire Meriwether Lewis Birthday Month Series, follow the links below:
Lewis and Clark: Screwing Their Way Across a Continent
Lewis and Clark and Sex Bombs
Who Was Meriwether Lewis Godfather?
If Meriwether Lewis Had Lived to be 80
Lewis and Clark and Old Blue Eyes
The Lion Will Lie Down With the Lamb
My Natchez Trace Walk Featured in We Proceeded On
Dead People Follow Me And They Talk To Me
Is Suicide the Final Arbiter of a Life. For Robin Williams. And Meriwether Lewis.
WordPress Is Killing Me
Fate’s Fickle Fingering
30 Comments
happy birthday to ml, and i’ll go out and discover something new today in his honor –
Life often gets in the way of our best intentions, doesn’t it, but, without your blog, and especially your book, so many would not know much about Meriwether Lewis at all, so, you see, you have paid his birthday celebration forward many times over already. 🙂 (those postcards sound pretty nifty, though).
Hope you are feeling well.
Happy B Day ML
I have a fairly ancient copy of the journals. I got ’em out and read for a while. On August 18, 1804, Clark mentions a dance in honor of Lewis’ birthday. “A fine evening,” he says.
It’s the thought that counts. 🙂 Happy birthday ML!
As Facebook is wont to do these days, little sidebar articles and advertisements attach themselves to related posts . . . Look what I found there this morning – wish I had a few extra mil just lying around! 🙂 http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-lewis-clark-ranch-20140725-story.htmlHappy
Of course, this is a realtor’s promotional ad, but to consider the video from our historical vantage point . . . priceless!! Happy Birthday, Merry!
I dig the card idea, but if all else fails you can always email them! 🙂
It is also my Father in Law’s…………Christ I hope not……..
Happy Birthday Merry!
Happy Birthday Merry! May the sun and wind forever guide you to peace and happiness in the afterlife. Love, Sacagawea.
Happy Birthday, Merry!
Sorry your postcards didn’t work out, Andra. Still, you are paying a nice tribute to ML with an entire month’s worth of posts in his honour!
Happy Birthday Merry…wherever you are!
Happy Birthday Merry, enjoy!
I like the way you used this to mention your book! Very adept. 🙂
The postcards sound lovely but life often gets away from us. I think your intentions are obvious and you are spreading his “sparklers”. Thanks!
So he didn’t quite get to make the afterlife journey by postcard bit! 🙂
You need a Meriwether Lewis bobble head or life size cardboard of him to have in your home! A very HB to a man I know so much about now, thanks to you. 🙂
A very happy birthday from me to Meriwether:)
I have a postcard I bought at a museum intending to send it to you two weeks ago. LOL! I get it! Keep writing, and the esteemed (in my eyes) Meriwether Lewis will still be remembered more this year than most. Look at all of us thinking about him! I didn’t do that last year. 🙂
Okay, okay, okay… I’m late for the party! Sorry, but I don’t think he’ll know.
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