NEW YORK CITY FEB.2011 . FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN HAVE A PARTY — ABIGAIL MCGRATH BROUGHT A CIGAR 
BOX OF FRANKLIN,s full of favorite pictures-thanks Abby!
Hosting the Party with Ray and Barbara was Harriette Phelps, who’s daughter is a professor at NYU and has a fine apartment on Washington Square Park and travels a lot, hence Harriette has met Franklin when we stayed there before. Harriette unbeknownst to anyone- no one knew it! , took a few little videos, Thanks so much Harriette!
THOSE PRESENT:
MAGDA STULL Soul Mate w/ franklin last 10 years of his life.
EAMON CONNOLLY A great long time friend (F. told of some glorious Bar Fight stories)
JACK DOWLING Friends the whole time since Franklin was 17 !
this one is so great … can we persuade Jack to let it be here – who does it hurt? Please Jack give us permission to post this!
ABIGAIL MCGRATH AND TONY MCGRATH Abigail went to Bard… a Bardian..along with Michael Maslanksy therefore with Franklin since college days. Benefactress for Franklin with great NYC apartments… after 1997- 2008! (Thanks for Cigar Box photos!)
BILL FARRAR A Bardian as well, long time friend – New Yorker , was at the “Farm” often in the 60′s, Story Teller! collector of fine piece of Macfie Art.
Recent NYC Belladonna Story
RAY AND BARBARA STEVENS, friends since the very early ’60′s because B. went to NYC from Oklahoma with Carolyn Brady and Bill Epton -Carolyn made connection with Franklin when they both worked at Jack Prince Studio. Franklin lived part time at Ray and B farm in Maryland, all lived in New Mexico at the same time .. Stevens moved back to East coast when F. returned after ’91.
HARRIETTE PHELPS ( secret videographer!)
Franklin’s Magic ( Barbara interrupts!)
SO, NOW LOOK AT A LOT OF THE FRANKLIN MACFIE CIGAR BOX PHOTOS………
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1.LOTS OF POST CARDS, SOME HAD HAND WRITNG AND STAMPS, SOME LIKE ON THE LEFT HERE WERE CHOSEN BY F, 2.FAVORITE BOOTS. 3 FRANKLIN AT YOUNG AGE.
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1. HOUDINI IN CHAINS SENT BY SOMEONE WITH CRYPTIC SIGNATURE. 2.MICHAEL MASLANSKY IN JACKET, FRANKLIN IN FRONT, AND WHO?. 3. PAINTING BELONGED TO JMB (F.M SAID IT REMINDED HIM OF BSTVNS)
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1.FRANKLIN’S FAVORITE, BILLIE HOLIDAY. 2.CHRIST FROM CHARTRES. 3. MACFIE AT FIVE.
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1.HAS TO BE ALI, AT MOROCCO COASTAL CAVES. 2. POLAROID ART, MACFIE MADE OF JEAN MICHEL. 3. POST CARD SAVED BY F.M.
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1. NO WRITING ON BACK -ANDY WARHOL AND BASQUIAT. 2.SISTER AND FAMILY OF MACFIE (A NEPHEW)SEE BELOW: MAGDA STULL’S COMMENT ON PHOTOS 3.MACFIE AND NANCY IN PHOTO BOOTH( SEE BELOW NANCY BARICKMANS COMMENTS RE: LOTS OF PHOTOS..# ON PHOTOS NO LONGER CORRESPOND!
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1. CASABLANCA -F. SOUVENIR CARD. 2. FRANKLIN AND WHO? STANDING IN FRONT OF FRANKLIN’S MEDANALES, NEW MEXICO HAND MADE HOUSE “CHURCH” WINDOW. 3. PHOTO ’84 BOULIMAIME (?) MOROCCO.
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1. FAMILY PHOTO. BLUE MASK -MACFIE 1980. 2. POLAROID PORTRAIT OF JMB.
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1. FRANK WITH HIS BROTHER JOHN AND SISTER-IN-LAW ON LONG ISLAND 2. SEEMS TO BE THE SAME DAY (SEE NANCY B.COMMENTS BELOW) . 3. CHURCH ART FROM VEZELAY CATHEDRAL-NOTE FAR RIGHT GUY – A LITTLE LIKE MACFIE.
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1. LINDA EPTON WINRICK…SEE HER COMMENT BELOW. 2.1997 60th BIRTHDAY PARTY FRANKLIN THREW ON THE SHOWBOAT IN THE LIBERTY MARINA IN NEW JERSEY, FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS AROUND AT THE TIME. (B and Ray Stevens behind center pole) 3. MAYBE A FAMILY WEDDING?
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1. NOT SURE WHO OR WHEN OR WHERE. 2. SEEMS TO BE IN NEW MEXICO BUT WHO?. 3. ANOTHER PICTURE OF 6Oth BIRTHDAY PARTY ..ANYONE WHO CAN COMMENT ON WHO IS IN THE PHOTO- OR WHO WAS THERE ?
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1.WHO IS THIS? 2.FRANKLIN :ON WHAT LOOKS LIKE MOVING DAY-HOUSE BOAT IN LIBERTY MARINA.3. THE HOUSE IN PORTUGAL /WITH JEAN MICHEL BELLUC WITH ADDITION BUILT BY FRANKLIN ( AND LENA’S HUSBAND ? HOPE TO HEAR FROM LENA)
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1.JACK DOWLING HELPING FRANKLIN WITH THE HOUSE BOAT PROJECT. SEE JACK’S COMMENTS BELOW.2.NANCY BARICKMAN AND FRANKLIN 1997. SEE N.B. COMMENTS BELOW. 3. NOT SURE OF THIS PHOTO, BUT THINK OF ALI AND FAMILY.
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1. THIS IS IN PORTUGAL IN THE PART OF THE HOUSE FRANKLIN BUILT BUT DONT KNOW WHO THIS IS? 2. THIS MOST LIKELY IS LENA WITH FRANKLIN IN PORTUGAL(SEE JACK DOWLING’S COMMENTS BELOW THIS POST.) 3. NO ONE CAN IDENTIFY-ANYONE KNOW WHO HE IS?
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1. PORTRAIT -FRANKLIN, WITH NANCY B, LENA, P. 1997 SF VISIT. 2. F. HOUSE IN NEW MEXICO – labeled ” Going back in time——–Settlement 800 BC”.3.?
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1.NEW MEXICO 1997 COTTON WOODS ALONG THE CHAMA WHEN LENA CAME FROM PORTUGAL TO NYC AND TOOK FRANKLIN TO NEW MEXICO . 2. FRIENDS IN PORTUGAL ? 3. JEAN MICHEL BELLUC -WHEN, WHERE?
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1. P. AND FRANK. 2. ANYONE KNOW WHO THIS IS? 3. FRANKLIN AFTER 1991.
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1.MACFIE IN STUDIO OF LAST APARTMENT. 2. WHO IS HE? 3. JMB – IN THE CHAMA MAYBE? 4. WHO ? DEFINITELY HE IS VISITING FRANK’S PIGS IN MEDENALAS AT THE MOMENT.
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1.FRANKLIN AT THE BISTRO WITH JOHNNY MOSISMO (SEE MAGDA’S COMMENTS BELOW). 2.FRANKLIN AND MAGDA . 3.ON BACK OF PHOTO IS WRITTEN FRANKLIN AUG. ’38 -1 YEAR.
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Jack Dowling sent the photo he mentioned at the party of Michael Maslansky and Franklin Macfie
“It is credited on the back to Terry Stevenson, a friend to all of us.…On the back is the date, October 1970. So this is well before Jean Micheal and probably taken in NYC and before, certainly, Michael had his stroke which took him from us and kept him in such a devastating place for so long.” Jack
THERE ARE MANY IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN MACFIE’S LIFE THAT THE FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN MACFIE KNOW AND HAVE NOT BEEN IN TOUCH WITH . ABIGAIL GRAFTON -CALIF., EILEEN IN NEW MEXICO, FRANKLIN’S FAMILY MEMBERS, KATE ROUNDS IN NYC, LENA IN PORTUGAL, TO NAME A FEW! PLUS ALL THE MISSING NAMES OF PEOPLE IN THIS POST! HOPE TO HEAR FROM MORE.
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NEXT POSTS : ANOTHER PARTY?- A POST FROM A MEMORIAL IN NEW MEXICO AND RE; ABIGAIL MCGRATH’S MACFIE COLLECTION AND PROPOSED MEMORIAL GALLERY IN UPSTATE NEW YORK.
