Kelley House Calendar: The Constant Lover

Kelley House Calendar: The Constant Lover

The French may be glad to die for love, as the old song goes, but Auggie Heeser was willing to live for it – a very long time. Heeser, son of pioneer Mendocino Beacon publisher William Heeser, fell in love with Edith Nichols when he was 21 and she was 15, but 50 years passed before she married him. Dante met Beatrice when he was nine years old and burned with love for her until she died 16 years later, and Penelope waited 20 years for Ulysses to…