Wednesday 8 July 2009

Forty Years On

Those who maintain that the moon landings never took place may like to consider that my great-great-grandmother Julia Stevens, universally known as Ma, took that view even at the time. Ma sternly admonished my mother and her seven siblings to attend to their schoolwork instead of filling their heads with such nonsense. She was by then blind and in her nineties, and she never left Saint Helena in her life.

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