[lit-ideas] Is Kerry long-tailed or short-tailed? Nobody knows.
- From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Literature and Ideas List <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:39:12 -0400
Some may recall that I once asked the question here as to whether
Kerry was a long-tailed or a short-tailed Forbes and some of those,
if they are able to remember something that did not happen, may
remember that I received no answer to that question.
But now, courtesy of Rosanna Masley and Judith Kaul, librarians
at CWRU Law School, I have received an answer of sorts.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/08/15/island_ideals?pg=2
Naushon takes us inexorably to John Forbes Kerry. It
has been widely reported that as a member of Forbes nation,
Kerry claims Naushon by birthright as his summer sandbox.
Wrong. Kerry is not a member of the trust who has first dibs to
rent the 20-odd houses on island. Members are limited to
direct descendants of John Murray Forbes. (There are about 200
of them.) While he has spent summers on Naushon intermittently
over the course of his life, Kerry remains out of that
particular loop.
. . . .
Which brings us to the short-tailed vs. the long-tailed Forbes. The
short-tailed Forbes come from the posh branch of the family, who,
going back a ways, used to clip the tails of their horses for
dressage competition and fancy carriage work. The long-tailed, in
contrast, hail from the informal branch who have always let the
tails of their horses stay long. The Naushon Forbes are decidedly
long-tailed. No one is quite sure whether Kerry is short-tailed or
long-tailed.
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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