[Vision2020] "A Very Big Deal"

[Carl Westberg]

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originally made."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. 
>Chesterton’s
>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
>
>
>
>
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