[Vision2020] "A Very Big Deal"
Carl Westberg
carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com
Wed Feb 23 09:13:38 PST 2005
These are halcyon days indeed for our little town tucked away on the
Palouse. In the last few weeks, Sports Illustrated named the Corner Club
the 21st best sports bar in America; two young Moscow musicians turned in a
bravura performance on Prairie Home Companion; and the Shroud of Turin
mystery has been solved, right here in Moscow. I can now reveal that just
last night I went to my basement to get something, and I found Jimmy Hoffa.
He was reading an ancient People magazine and eating some really stale
potato chips. He said to say hi to everybody.
Carl Westberg Jr.
>From: DonaldH675 at aol.com
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] "A Very Big Deal"
>Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 01:48:59 EST
>
>
>Visionaries:
>Nathan Wilson, according to his proud father, will soon put Moscow, Idaho
>on
>the map as the home of the man who "figured out how the Shroud of Turin was
>originally made." Nate's happy pappy, Doug Wilson, announced the
>startling
>news on his blog site _http://dougwils.com/_ (http://dougwils.com/) . It
>would
>appear that Nate -- all on his own and up on the roof of the ambiguously
>zoned New St. Andrews College -- has figured out how the Shroud of Turin
>was
>created. Doug's piece, called "The Shroud of Turin: Toward a Mystery
>Solved,"
>provides links to an article Nate wrote and a website he maintains that
>deals
>with this Moscow boy's amazing (miraculous?) scientific endeavors.
>Okay, I confess that members of my family members (particularly that
>cranky
>medievalist Auntie Establishment) were initially convulsed with laughter
>by
>Doug's blog. However, we soon decided that Doug's piece was an exercise
>in
>paternal irony. Alas, not so. I followed the links provided by Doug and
>discovered that Nate, applying the "the solution patterns of G.K.
>Chestertonâs
>Father Brown stories, worked through a 'paradigm shift' in the world of
>current
>theories of Shroud forgery."
>I won't give away the story or the solution behind this late-in-life
>science
>fair experiment of the twenty-something Nate -- you'll have to read it
>yourselves. I direct you instead to a scientific explanation of the
>Shroud at
>_http://www.petech.ac.za/shroud/nature.htm_
>(http://www.petech.ac.za/shroud/nature.htm) . Mr. Allen's work predates
>Nathan's by a number of years, and, it
>turns out, Mr. Allen himself relied on even older work. I am told (but
>have
>not seen the show) that a similar theory was presented once upon a time on
>The
>Discovery Channel. (Auntie again, being a crank.)
>I am unfamiliar, except in the most cursory way, with the history of
>glass,
>but I do have a question about Nate Wilson's shroud theory. Where does
>Nate
>suppose that a clever early medieval forger got hold of a sheet of glass
>of
>sufficient size and clarity to produce the six-foot-two image on the
>Shroud of
>Turin? Hell, we couldn't get glass like that in Moscow until the turn of
>the century. Perhaps there was a Homeum Depotum in medieval Italy? If
>Nate
>could answer that question, then I'm sure that puzzled medievalists the
>world
>over would truly thank him. (Well, except for Auntie. She wouldn't thank
>him
>if he found the Spear of Destiny and the True Cross -- though she
>speculates
> that perhaps they're up on the NSA roof as well.)
>Rose Huskey
>
>
>
>
>
>_____________________________________________________
> List services made available by First Step Internet,
> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.
> http://www.fsr.net
> mailto:Vision2020 at moscow.com
>¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
More information about the Vision2020
mailing list