"This is quite a bit more than we knew when we started. Yet your views and the views of others have not altered one bit. You and others seem intent on protecting a static version of Merion lore no matter what evidence turns up. It should be needless to say that this is not such an objective approach. But maybe that is just my bias speaking."
David Moriarty:
Hold on a minute. You have a pretty facile way of saying "we" there. Who are you referring to?
Obviously you have learned a great deal since these threads began but I can tell you what Wayne and I have learned from these threads or at least what I have learned.
1. That Hugh Wilson went to GB in 1912. I did not know that before these threads began. However, as of now that does not necessarily mean to me he wasn't over there earlier and even if he wasn't I don't see it makes any difference anyway.
2. And I missed the fact that Hugh Wilson apparently had a topo map in Feb 1911 from that "agronomy letter" that I mentioned and posted a part of on here. But that certainly does not prove that Macdonald and the Committee worked on that map when they were at NLGA. That's your opinion. There is nothing in the Merion record to that effect, and there is nothing in the Wilson's words to that effect.
Most of the rest of what you said above that "we" now know I either disagree with or have known for years. I have always known that Macdonald came down here a few times and I have always known what the Wilsons and others said he did for Merion and the "Special Construction Committee". All the stuff that you've apparently learned is in Merion's archives, and we've known it for years.
So I haven't learned much from these threads I haven't known for years so I see no particular reason to change my opinion on the creation of Merion or due to anything you've produced.
Oh yes, I certainly did learn from Wayne when he went to the county courthouse recently that Merion bought the land a year or more earlier than everyone previously thought.
The point is you have constantly accused us of discounting and minimizing the involvement of Macdonald or Macdonald and Whigam in the creation of Merion and we have never done anything of the kind and we have always known everything that was ever said about them and Merion that has appeared on these threads.
You have in no way proven that we have discounted or minimized anything at all about the creation of Merion East or anyone who had anything to do with it and the fact is you never will prove that because you can't. We've never done that and we have known Merion's entire known record to this point for years.
But good luck in your on-going investigation of the creation of Merion East or whatever it is you think you're doing.
It hasn't accomplished a thing to date and I don't see that it ever will.