A: What a long, strange trip it’s been for the ashes of poet and novelist D. H. Lawrence. After Lawrence (of Sons and Lovers fame) died in France in 1930, his wife Frieda thought it would be nice to mix his ashes into the concrete being used to build his memorial in Taos, New Mexico. Not a bad gesture.
She therefore entrusted the intercontinental transfer of Lawrence’s cremains to her lover, Angelo Ravagli. Let’s repeat that. Frieda asker her boyfriend to transport the cremains of her dead, cuckolded husband!
Needless to say, it was a pretty poor plan. Many claim that Ravagli later admitted to scattering the ashes in Europe to save himself the expense of shipping them. Then, to cover up his tracks, he cleverly filled the case with non-human ashes once he’d arrived in the United States.
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