Talk:Licorice McKechnie
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The orginating source of Licorice's absence is, according to most sites on the net, a 1989 Q magazine article. I believe this relates to a Q&A segment from the April 1989 issue in which Licorice is listed. The section says that she was '...reported to have been behaving oddly - "going off the deep end" in the words of a former String Band associate - and was last seen setting out on a journey across the Arizona Desert.' In a note, Q mag expresses its thanks to 'Bill Allison' for ISB information. Can we assume that the former associate who was the originating source of information was Bill Allison? In which case, who is he.
Additionally, I did a search on the California Missing Person PDF and found nothing on Licorice or any of her aliases.
- Mmmm... do you think we should remove all the unsourced/unsubstantiated info from this article, re Wikipedia policy on living people? (See WP Bio Project template I put at the top.)--Mais oui! 23:33, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Not sure Mais oui. I wasn't trying to suggest that Licorice is still living, merely that the evidence for her demise is not convincing. I was hoping that someone familiar with ISB history would know who Bill Allison is or was and would be able to garnour some more information. Certainly, the Q mag article (actually just an aside) seems to me a shaky source upon which to base the Wiki entry. Past that I find Licorice extremely enigmatic and evocative of the times and the thought that she's been lost made me rather sad. Aridol 12th August 2006 (PS I'm an html novice, so please excuse the lack of markup)
I hate to say this but it seems slightly overoptimistic to place Licorice in the "living people" category if her whereabouts have been unknown for over 20 years. There may be little evidence to place her under a "missing" category but unfortunately there's even less evidence to declare she is living.
Indeed, Joe Boyd's recent autobiography briefly mentions the mystery of her disappearance, and he draws the conclusion that she is probably dead. He makes no reference to any solid sources, so of course he might simply have read this Wikipedia article (!) but it's certainly an example in print of the presumption of her death. Cravenmonket 17:50, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
I have briefly updated the article having read an interview with her sister Frances Harding from 2000. I haven't included all the information she shared in the interview as it would seem rudderless without a more relevent biography, but apparently her last letter was dated 1990, from Sacramento about an operation she was recovering from. It still sheds little light on what happened after this letter, but the interview did provide the strange fact that she was going to be wed to Bert Jansch (who was also a friend of Robin Williamson) until her father made his position clear on the matter. The local banns apparently stated "Bert Jansch, musician, to marry Christina McKechnie, ceramic artist", but the wedding never took place and shortly afterwards Bert left for Morocco. 82.69.106.43 16:25, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
How fascinating... I am in Sacramento. Perhaps I have passed th aging Licorice on J Street, grooving outside The Beat to some sounds in her head... Cravenmonket 17:54, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "Living" no more
Having not read this page before doing so, and reading nothing here that would have prevented me from doing so, I have removed this person from the Category:Living Persons because, "(I just think that if someone has been "missing" for 20 years, and is classified here as "Disappeared", they cannot be confidently also classified as "Living Persons" (hopeful as that might be)."
If Licorice McKechnie is still alive somewhere, it is also clear that she does not wish to be alive as Licorice McKechnie. Thus, Licorice McKechnie is either literally or metaphorically dead. Saudade7 10:42, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
