I was really going to steer clear of politics
he following post can be found to be made by Ms. Carpenter on the amazon.com website with respect to the comments posted there on her books, The Miss Stone Affair: White bridesmaid dressesAmerica’s First Modern Hostage Crisis.
Ms. Carpenter’s comments speak for themselves – but those not familiar with Balkan history, apparently, representatives of the Macedonian nation formally set up in 1944, 40 years after the “Miss Stone Affair” have tried to appropriate this episode of history as belonging to their own – or, alternatively, as Ms. Carpenter suggests – to rewrite history in a way that is more favorable to Serbs and Greeks.
The research of the American author has demonstrated that in 1901 the region of Macedonia was populated mostly by Bulgarians, and the kidnappers of Miss Stone, people revered today by two nations – Bulgaria and the so called Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia – were Bulgarians.
I was really going to steer clear of politics when re-telling the Miss Stone story – but I believe this point here is worth mentioning since Ms. Carpenter decided to “set the record straight” herself.I am Teresa Carpenter, author of the Miss Stone Affair. I feel compelled to correct two outrageous claims made by anonymous reviewers here on Amazon concerning the identity of the kidnappers of an American missionary woman in the amazing 1901 case I chronicle. One asserts that there is “One very important error” in the book , namely that Bulgarians never lived in this part of Macedonia and that the kidnappers were not Bulgarian.” The other alleges, equally absurdly, that “Bulgarians never lived on this part of the Balkan peninsula.” I cannot imagine how they can write this with a straight face when Bulgarians were so clearly the dominant force in the region during the time of the Stone kidnapping in 1901. I suspect the assertions of these “reviewers”bridesmaid dresses under $100 are part of a partisan attempt to rewrite history more favorably to Serbs and Greeks. The facts say otherwise, and that is probably why they do not have the courage to sign their names. Thank you for allowing me to set the record straight.”
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