Now we may debate what "significant", "substantial" and "momentus" may precisely mean??
These threads have become ridiculous.
Last night I posted that Wayne went to the Recorder of Deeds at Merion's county courthouse and discovered the property was bought by Merion over a year earlier than anyone heretofore knew. Can you imagine what that may mean about when Wilson may've visited NGLA?
David Moriarty read that post and just avoided that subject altogether!! What does that tell you about where he's coming from on these threads??
He argues endlessly over only trivialities that suit his hypotheses and completely avoids everything else of importance that doesn't support it.
Go ahead, argue with him for another ten pages about what the precise definition of "significant" is and then "substantial" and "momentus" for another ten pages.
This man is not looking for the truth about Merion at all. He wouldn't even recognize it after it's been put right under his nose for about 40 pages. All he wants to do is to continue to argue with people who understand and know Merion a lot better than he ever will, and who have also supplied him with about 90% of the little he does know about it.
And don't be looking for some list of who did what at Merion because you will never find it. That kind of thing was probably never recorded back then as it isn't today.
Frankly, we are pretty lucky to have such a report from the man who was the architect of Merion and another one from his brother. On most courses of that era we don't have such a thing.
Oh sorry, David Moriarty doesn't even have those reports does he?? And why doesn't he? Oh yeah, I forgot, he claims that's all my fault because I put the relevent parts of it on here and then decided to delete all my posts on the other thread after he acted like a total jerk driving away the guy who knows a hundred times more about the history of Merion than he will ever know.
Maybe he should've thought a bit more about copying something relevent to this thread and reposting that like those reports instead of just copying and reposting things I said to him he thinks are insulting.
I suggest you all begin to pay a whole lot more attention to what the Wilsons particularly said---who would have known about the creation of Merion better than they would----and a whole lot less attention to what the meaning of "advice", "involvement and "significant" means to this guy David Moriarty.