What follows is a lightly edited comment I recently made on a post which appeared today on powerlineblog.com, a site on which I pay to belong. My comment appears to have been rejected, Lord knows why. Apparently, someone called "John Hinderaker" (who I suspect wouldn't recognize a knitting needle from a barbeque skewer, a hairpin,… Continue reading The Knitting Wars–And How Powerline Has Got Them Wrong
Day: November 11, 2026
In Memory, Thomas Herbert Mapson
Thomas H Mapson was my Auntie Betty’s father. (Strictly speaking, she wasn’t my auntie–being my great-grandmother’s niece–and her given name wasn’t Betty–they were Jenny Alice May–but “close enough for gubmint work,” as they say. He was born and baptized in Bilston, Staffordshire in the UK, on July 4, 1878. Given what I’ve found out about… Continue reading In Memory, Thomas Herbert Mapson