I stay in email and phone contact with my cousin Helen, daughter of my father’s brother Wentworth. She wrote me this: Tweet

I guess some of my ancestors in the US South were slaveholders, because there are black Linebargers. Readers from other countries may not know that after slavery ended in the United States, after our Civil War, it was not uncommon for newly emancipated people to take the last name of the former slave-owners. I get…

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Recently I got an email from a sharp-eyed employee of the Library of Congress who is also a Cordwainer Smith fan. He had come across this photo and thought it might be mislabeled. It said that it was of W.W. Linebarger; click on the image to see the LOC page about it. W.W. Linebarger was…

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