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Re: Sumner and the Smalls lighthouse.
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2006 Apr 2, 12:08 -0400
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2006 Apr 2, 12:08 -0400
On Apr 2, 2006, at 6:06 AM, George Huxtable wrote: > As I said in the earlier mailing, "it seems that he falsified the > position of the light so as to > make a more dramatic story out of the first "Sumner line". In my > eyes, that rather diminishes the > stature of Captain Thomas Sumner". That remains my view. George, We have an imperfect hero, or a flawed hero, but hero nonetheless (hero in the figurative sense here), as he did indeed advance the practice of navigation. Fred
