June 23 1935 -- John Henry Lorenzo and Frieda Josephine Pund (who will one day become the 'Rev' and 'Jo' of their son's first book, The Remaking), both of Collingswood, New Jersey, marry in Collingswood's First Methodist Church, the church that helped Rev's mother, Nannie Viola McDonald Lorenzo, 'raise' John and his four siblings after their father died in 1919 (when John [Rev] was only 14)

8 A.M. February 7 1943 – mj lorenzo, creator of The Remaking, born at Methodist Hospital, Philadelphia, into a family of preachers, school teachers, professional musicians and college professors: all four of his Mommy’s and Daddy’s brothers are or will become ordained ministers (Presbyterian; Methodist; Bible Baptist); all three of his parents’ sisters will be married to ministers  [#211] ; and all eight couples, regardless of how liberal or ‘modernist’ the denomination in question, will lifelong remain conservative neo-Calvinist/Fundamentalist/Evangelical in theology  [#24] : one uncle, Percy Crawford, and his musician wife and five children, mj’s cousins, will be well-known 1950s TV stars because Percy is already by 1943 a well-known evangelist on daily Philadelphia morning radio, and -- soon after mj's birth -- will be on prime-time coast-to-coast Sunday night major-network TV right after Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians; and when Percy dies young in the early 60s, evangelist Billy Graham will deliver his eulogy  [#35] -- mj's father's parents have grown up poor postbellum Southern farmers on 'named' family farms outside Winchester, Virginia; but before the Civil War the Lorenzos had been landed gentry, wealthy established Maryland tobacco plantationers, from the 1660s on; the first Lorenzo having left England in 1650, a 'Huguenot' (Calvinist French Protestant) who began life in the New World as an indentured servant outside Annapolis and died in the 1690s the owner of 16 African slaves and of enough English-colony Maryland land to will substantial plantations to every one of his twelve children, sons and daughters alike (thereby throwing away the option, as David Hackett Fischer said in Albion's Seed [p. 381], of keeping the family in the highest upper-class bracket); Rev's father's mother's people (the Jacksons and Fentons) were northern Virginia Quakers from forebears who had first settled in English-colonial Quaker tracts along both sides of the Delaware (in 'west' New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania); Rev's mother's mother's people (the McDonalds and Kellys) had included a circuit-riding preacher, George Washington Kelly, and an immigrant from Scotland, James D. ('JD') McDonald; while mj's mother's people were urbane, cultured, well-educated, resourceful, highly self-disciplined, and even very adventurous, multi-talented upper-middle-class Philadelphia Germans, both of Jo's parents having been raised in the big Eastern city melting pot with Jews, Blacks and Hispanics, and having won places in the best city schools; Jo's Presbyterian mother, Frieda Myers, a ballerina who danced on the Brooklyn Bridge the day it opened; her father, Louis Pund, having designed the first non-horse-drawn fire engine in Philadelphia; and Louis' mother's family, the Heppes, having manufactured pianos in that city; and so, not surprisingly, by the time mj gets to kindergarten in Florence (where the town's other children are learning their first letters and words) he is reading the backs of cereal boxes and saying he wants to be a doctor

childhood and youth – mj grows up in a small town in southern New Jersey on his parents’ and family’s love and affection; and the admiration of his father's church people [#36] ; on his extensive family's conservative 20th-century-American-Calvinist values (i.e., the educated application of capital, democracy, freedom, and Jesus' loving grace, all as a single-package worldview, to personal, national and global improvement); on the Bible (especially the prophets and other heroes of the Old Testament); on John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress; and on novels, especially the Hardy Boys boy-detective stories; and the twenty-some novels of the Sugar Creek Gang series, wholesome boy-stories by Paul Hutchens set in a southwestern Indiana farm town; and later, starting in 7th grade, on more substantial boy-protagonist novels like Trail of the Lonesome Pine, How Green Was My Valley, Treasure Island, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, etc.; and only minimally, at first, on TV, which hits Florence about 1948 and is too expensive for Rev and Jo Lorenzo at first, who must take their children to Dr. Schisler's or the Browns' across Broad St. to see Fred Waring and Percy Crawford on TV Sunday nights

age 4 to 5 – mj receives from his father, Rev Lorenzo, the only beating he can remember, perhaps the first, and certainly his last; for wandering into a neighbor’s yard; the instrument being the back of a hair brush; the spot being the behind; and decides to work for his parents instead of for himself; and to be a model preacher’s son; and in this sense mj lorenzo begins a childhood-long employment as preacher’s helper-boy, a model Calvinist-Methodist Christian son, an adjunct to his father’s ministry, a convincing physical in-person proof of his father’s rightness and righteousness as spiritual pastor of the flock, just as mj’s mother, Jo Lorenzo, is a convincing in-person proof by being a model preacher’s wife; and on his knees at his bedside at age 5, with his Dad ('Rev') pastoring him, he ‘receives Jesus as his savior’ and spends many years wondering if he was truly sincere when he did it, and if it really ‘took’ and if he will really go to heaven: and it is not a bad life; for, in fact, in later years Dr. Lorenzo will remember his childhood only as ‘wonderful’, ‘delightful’, full of protective caring and warmth and big love-filled family reunions in South Jersey, Philadelphia and Winchester, Virginia, plus the frequent adventure of family road trips all over the USA and Canada, the strictness forgotten and seemingly irrelevant since he had ceased to contest it from age 5 onward (until late college years and medical school)

August 28 1949 – mj lorenzo, age 6½, experiences the Rocky Mountains for the first time and stands on the tippy top of one of the highest peaks in the lower 48 states, Mt. Evans in Colorado (with parents and older sister)  [photo above]

summer 1953 – he first comprehends how the Continental Divide splits the USA (and him) into two distinctly opposite spatial and conceptual regions when he straddles the dividing line at Logan Pass in Glacier National Park, Montana, after riding up the Going to the Sun Highway with parents and sister in the family Buick  [#s 2, 3]

June 1960 – graduates valedictorian from Florence High School, Florence, County of Burlington, New Jersey  [#278]

summer 1960 – visits (for the first time) the Canadian Rockies, including Moraine Lake, Lake Louise, Peyto Lake and Lake O’Hara (with parents)  [#278]

fall 1960 – enters Wrigley College in Illinois (near Chicago) at age 17

spring 1961 – Paul Tournier, a Swiss psychiatrist, spends a week at Wrigley as a special visiting scholar; mj buys his books (The Meaning of Persons; Guilt and Grace; and others), reads them and learns of Carl Jung and Jean Paul Sartre: he buys and begins absorbing his first Jung book, C. G. Jung: Psychological Reflections  [#20 and its footnote 9]  and decides to be – not a family doctor, as he had said since age 5, but – an M.D. specializing in psychiatry and psychotherapy

spring 1961 – a Wrigley Creative Writing professor asks every class member to write a poem and one week later she selects only mj’s poem to read to the class, pointing out, among other things, his ‘effective use of open vowel sounds’, even though mj had never heard of ‘open vowel sounds’ and had no idea what they were; the poem described his elated spirit when he first lay down on his back and looked up at the blue sky hanging over Opabin Meadow; up to which he had hiked alone while his parents waited for him down in the lodge at Lake O’Hara, Yoho Nat’l Park, British Columbia (during their trip to the Canadian Rockies the previous summer)  [#278; also, #273, 'First Dream from Hungabee']

June 1964 – graduates Wrigley College magna cum laude and spends the summer (with a co-student, Bob Ruegg) selling one-volume encyclopedic dictionaries door-to-door in the Afro-American suburbs of Washington, D.C.  [#278]

August 1964 – mj receives his letter of acceptance into the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia; he feels the need for a break and he and Bob 'borrow' Rev’s 1960 blue Buick Electra (without permission), drive across country and hike from Lake O’Hara to Moraine Lake via Opabin Meadow and Wenkchemna Pass, totaling the Buick in Montana while driving home  [#278] ; Rev buys an identical 1960 blue Buick Electra with the insurance money and some additional cash

September 1964 – begins medical school at the University of Pennsylvania ('Penn') in Philadelphia

spring of 66 to fall of 67 – spends free time with young instructors of Penn’s India Peace Corps training program; in the Poconos and in Philly; including an American nurse and a real Indian princess, daughter of a real maharaja (high king; great ruler) in Delhi, India, both of whom will become part of The Remaking  [#170 and following]

1960-69 – keeps little pocket-size notebook-diaries during college and medical school which later become part of The Remaking  [mentioned and/or excerpted throughout the book, starting in sub-section #10]

spring 69 – takes courses as a ‘matriculated auditor’ at the C. G. Jung Institute of Psychology in Zürich, Switzerland, undergoing a brief analysis with Marie Louise von Franz  [see sub-section #242, last sentence of footnote 3]

June 69 – graduates medical school and begins a psychiatry internship at Presbyterian Hospital on Lancaster Avenue in W. Philly  [#1]

June 70 – mj drops out of his psychiatry internship, borrows his father’s second blue Buick ‘just for the weekend for a Saturday night date’ and heads west  [#1} ; mj is struck by lightning on the solstice while straddling the Continental Divide on Logan Pass in Glacier Park  [#3] ; Rev’s second 1960 blue Buick Electra is totaled; and a disorganized telegram from ‘Jack’ in Hay River, Alberta, Canada, reaches Florence, New Jersey on the Lorenzos’ 35th anniversary, June 23, instructing his parents not to send the 'Mounties' (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) to look for him  [#3]

summer and fall of 70 – monthly manila envelopes of Jack’s scratchings mailed from Arctic and subarctic Canadian outposts to his parents in Florence later become the bulk of Part I of The Remaking

late Feb 71 – the 'Fort Smith' envelope arrives in Florence from ‘Mortimer’ three months after he had written it, mailed from Fort Chipewyan  [#94]

late May 71 – all of Part II arrives in Florence mailed May 10 from Ft. Chipewyan, Alberta, written by (and with the penmanship of) ‘Mortimer’  [#94]

June 22, 1971 – summer solstice: mj (now age 28) and Sammy Martinez (just turned 14) first meet and befriend each other above Lake Moraine in Banff Nat’l Park, Alberta, Canada  [#200]

June 23, 1971 – mj gives Sammy a letter of introduction and recommendation to include with a future letter (that Sammy will later write and send) to Rev and Jo Lorenzo asking for a copy of the entire original Remaking  [#200]

June 30, 71 – Part III of The Remaking arrives in Florence, postmarked Eureka, Montana, date of mailing smeared and illegible, written by ‘mj’  [#258]

Oct or Nov of 71 – Sammy receives the world’s first ‘Xeroxed’ (photocopied) reproduction of The Remaking ('original version') in the mail; delivered to his famously antique and neck-breaking (because-low-ceilinged) multi-generational adobe family hut in San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico  [#200]

November 71 – Rev hands out free copies of The Remaking throughout Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley, asking for help in finding his lost -- because ‘tuned-in, turned-on and dropped-out’ -- son  [#202]

Christmas 71 – mj gets his original Remaking back, envelopes, photos and all, while he and Dlune, just married, are visiting the Lorenzos  [#202] ; and the original Remaking manuscript stays in a box under dirty socks in mj’s clothes closet until 79 or 80  [see end of #295]  and  [#303]

June 72 to June 75 – mj and Dlune live very quietly for three years in the Poconos, at Spring Lake in E. Stroudsburg, Pa.  [#202] , bringing their first child, Freddie, into the world; while Sammy keeps in touch by mail

74 - Sammy, while college-hunting in the east, looks up Rev and Jo Lorenzo in Florence  [#200]

spring, summer and fall of 74 – mj interviews his close friends Bill and Betty Ann Blackburn in Minisink Hills, near East Stroudsburg; and these three interviews become his next three books  [#303 and its footnote 2]

June 75 – mj, Dlune, Freddie (and Nico 'in the hatch') move to Denver so the young Dr. can complete his psychiatry residency training

June 75 – Sammy graduates Española High in northern New Mexico  [#200]

Aug or Sept 75 – Sammy begins Penn (University of Pennsylvania) undergrad (‘men’s college’) in Philadelphia  [#200]

75-79 – while at Penn, Sammy visits the Lorenzos frequently, almost every weekend during his first year  [#200]

Nov 75 – Sammy discovers the ‘early Remaking pundits’ at Penn  [#200]

Dec 75 – Rev & Jo make Sammy promise to not reveal mj's whereabouts to the people Rev calls ‘the so-called pundits’ until mj is 'less fragile'  [#200]

78-79 – ‘culture hero’ 'pundits' begin increasing pressure on Sammy to reveal mj's whereabouts  [near end of #200]

May or June 79 – Sammy graduates Penn in (double-major) English and Anthropology and returns to his home in New Mexico  [#200]

August 79 – mj’s famous ‘day on the beach’, first time in 8 years trying to remember what in the world ‘that crazy book’ The Remaking was all about  [#298] ; then, a week or so later, back in Denver he talks with Sammy and they decide that mj is a ‘white man’s Coyote’, a jokesmith and a trickster like ‘Coyote’ of Southwestern tribal lore, and that mj must constantly remember this so as not to have to take himself so (gravely) dangerously seriously all of the time  [#s 305, 306]

late 79 – pundits begin their own concerted research to track down mj physically, having given up on help from Sammy  [#201]

by 1979 – unbeknownst to the author of The Remaking, mj lorenzo, he enjoys a fanatically devoted ‘pundit’ following from coast to coast and all over Europe, a movement which is already fully flowered into various complex schools of thought and interpretation of The Remaking and its author, including one particularly vociferous activist group who consider him a 'culture hero'  [#241]

early 80 – ‘culture hero’ pundits search determinedly for mj and find him working for the State of Colorado at Fort Logan Mental Health Center in Denver; they inform him that Rev ‘published’ his original Remaking   [#201] – this is quickly followed by the ‘culture hero’ pundits inviting him to a conference at Penn, where he refuses to accept ‘culture hero’ as a designation – most of them become ‘anti-hero’ pundits overnight, invite him back in the ‘fall’ of 80 for a 2^nd conference, and finally decide he is a ‘hero’, not an ‘anti-hero’  [#s 283, 284] , a position they will soon abandon nevertheless (when they read his second book, Tales of Waring) -- and Dr. Lorenzo, in later years, will say 'they were right in all cases’

spring and/or summer 80 – Sammy interviews the Lorenzos -- over a period of several days and weeks -- as they sit on their pink and aqua couch in Florence; and this material becomes a significant part of the ‘First Revision’ of The Remaking  [end of #201]

late 80 – FIRST REVISION of The Remaking published with Sammy’s help  [#203]

after 1980 – ‘sixth attempt’ begins to attract a little attention in the Remaking pundit world  [#204]

81 – Sammy and pundits help mj publish (underground) his Tales of Waring, which is based on the first of the three Blackburn interviews

roughly 80-85 – pundits help mj find air time (TV and radio) to talk about his writing  [#199]  and  [#118]

82-85 – culture hero pundits desert mj for ten years until about 92-95

1985 – ‘the history lecture at Penn’, probably mj lorenzo's supreme moment on earth (as his pundits will come to feel): on the subject of: how, thanks to early Church 'fathers' (who were less than divinely perfect), the Western world incorrectly split its identity in half and then (sadly) hyperpolarized its two halves: by (1) (regrettably) suppressing its physical and earthy humanity, including (most erroneously of all) its sexuality, in favor of 'spirituality'; and by (2) associating ‘spirit’ with ‘good’ and ‘God’, but ‘flesh’ with ‘bad’ and ‘the Devil’, the result being catastrophic for individuals within Western civilization  [#s 113, 114, 115]  and for the rest of the world too, therefore, who must live on the same planet with these split-down-the-middle 'freaks'

mid 90s – ‘sixth attempt’ is finally fully addressed for the very first time; by an Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital psychiatry resident on his own (X-rated) website, claiming that this part of The Remaking speaks in veiled terms of nothing but the Dr.'s own suppressed sexuality  [#s 210, 211]

94 – Sammy and mj publish the SECOND REVISION with extensive in-margin aids aimed primarily at helping the author, mj lorenzo, remember why he wrote The Remaking  [#307]

92-95 or so – ‘culture hero’ people return to support mj lorenzo after a 10-year abandonment of their ‘hero’ over the ‘disappointing and embarrassing’ (but also misunderstood) 1981 publication of his second book, Tales of Waring

95-97 – the ‘laugh and a half’ conferences in U.S.; Europe (Moscow, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Paris and London); Tokyo; Kuala Lumpur; Sydney; etc.  [#s 294 through 308]

2001 (spring) – the second history lecture at Penn: on the subject of: why so many U.S. Americans (and especially such a very high percentage of neo-Calvinist/Fundamentalist/Evangelical Americans) would persist in sexually mutilating, carving up, and permanently carving away a significant part of their own defenseless baby boys’ penises in a way they euphemistically entitle, using a Latin medical-sounding term, ‘circumcision’: when there is no medical justification for doing so, as the USA’s pediatricians and every other Christian country have agreed for decades; while at the same time they never obtain their sons’ legally-required informed consent to be permanently deprived lifelong and irreversibly of an important, naturally human, put-there-for-a-specific-functional-purpose, God-given (and even 'beautiful') part of their primary sex organ  [#116]

2004 – the third history lecture at Penn: this time on: 'the priesthood of all believers'  [#197]

2004-2012 – Sammy Martinez helps -- extensively and intensively -- with the present work, ‘a look at mj lorenzo’s first book, The Remaking’, which is essentially a THIRD REVISION; but he refuses any credit on title page and allows a little known Duvall to put his name on the book as ‘author’

early 2011 – Dr. Lorenzo issues his famous ‘desperate appeal’ to Remaking pundits, New York literary agents and book publishers to help him get the present study published, the most ‘thorough’, as he says, most ‘highly excellent and literary, artistically magnificent’ study of The Remaking ever produced; and a publisher responds, finally, who will publish it on the World Wide Web  [#313]

summer of 2011 – pundits from all over the world reunite in Tucson, Arizona (the only convention center large enough on short notice) to celebrate their hero, mj lorenzo, for finally ‘going public’  [see Appendix A section #313]  with his quiet lifelong claim that The Remaking and he himself had come into the world to ‘physically save humanity from annihilating itself’ (from any kind of future world history other than fossil); and 40 pundit devotees die, tragically (‘like poor Mexicans' walking the Sonoran desert to enter the USA illegally), as a result of walking twenty blocks from hotel to convention center in dark jeans, dark T-shirt and backpack without sufficient water in deadly Tucson summer heat  [#314]

2012 – publication of:  ‘a look at mj lorenzo’s first book, The Remaking’ – on the World Wide Web at :     www.bruceduvall.com