ABC #019: Monsignor Sigourney Fay, Hobey Baker, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Connection

You might think that F. Scott Fitzgerald, a Midwesterner who made his name in New York City, would have no Philadelphia connections.  You would be wrong. 

• Sigourney Webster Fay was born in Philadelphia to an old-line Episcopalian family, but left that religion to become a Catholic priest; he was the most important influence in the life of the schoolboy F. Scott Fitzgerald and the inspiration for one of his most widely-loved characters in This Side of Paradise.
• While Fitzgerald matriculated at Princeton, he was three years behind the Golden Boy Hobart Amory Hare “Hobey” Baker, who not only showed up as a minor character in This Side of Paradise, but gave one of his family names to the character Fitzgerald identified as himself, Amory Blaine.  I interview Baker buff Paul Sookiasian for this segment.

Get ready for a literary exploration of two amazing Philadelphians in this October edition of All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories – The Other Side of Paradise.