Maple Leaf Tartan

[OC Richard]

I've always liked the Maple Leaf tartan. Congrats for its recognition as the official Canadian tartan!

About history, I sort of pity those people for whom history is a "shut off" subject and who therefore know nothing about what went on in the world before they themselves were old enough to understand the world around them. (Believe me, I work with plenty of people like that.)

I was extremely fortunate to grow up in a household in which history was a living and breathing thing. My father was very well-read in US and English history (he was a dyed-in-the-wool Anglophile) and had that knack, that gift, of being able to speak of old things in such a way that they seemed to be real, present, and fascinating. So growing up the Norman Conquest, the intrigues at court with various English kings, the English Civil War (and the American one too) were all as vibrant and alive as anything occuring today, actually more so.

With his comfortable income and plenty of vacation time I asked him why he didn't take a holiday in England and visit, for the first time, the place he knew so well. "The England I know... is gone."

About a US tartan, I like these