March from Kristin in Winterset

 This is from a new exchanger, Kristin, who lives close enough to Des Moines that her mail gets postmarked here. If you recall the envelope I posted that I sent to her - it said Winterset. I've been there to visit the Iowa Quilt Museum. Winterset is the home of Fons&Porter - which you recognize if you are a quilter. It is also in the heart of Madison County and most of us are familiar with the book and movie, The Bridges of Madison County. 

It is a picturesque town and if any of my pen pals who are also quilters find themselves in Des Moines I'll be happy to schedule a field trip to Winterset. The quilt museum is worth the trip. I needed to fact check myself since Iowa is dotted with soooo many little towns that I often get them confused. Wikipedia was my source for fact checking.  Wikipedia confirmed that my info is correct and added a tidbit that I will be giggling about all day. I might even remember this for more than a day.

Winterset was platted during a cool spell in the summer of 1849. The name was originally to be "Summerset", but the unseasonable coldness made the commissioners reverse this to "Winterset".

It's a silly little tidbit - but I seem to thrive on such things. Kristin: feel. free to send any additional info about your town and I'll add it here. I'm aware that Winterset is the birthplace of a cowboy movie star - but it's not Gary Cooper or Slim Pickens - so he will not get his name into my blog.

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This was viral yesterday - so maybe everyone has already seen it - but if not - Yikes!

https://www.fastcompany.com/91324550/kerning-on-pope-francis-tomb-is-a-travesty

And then there are the people who say that it is an intentional mistake - which is often done to show that humans are not *perfect* - in which case - a better mistake would have been to carve FRANK - with nice spacing. Bad spacing is not a worthy mistake.

And if you don't want to read the articles - and wonder about the V instead of a U - that's not a mistake - that's just using a *vintage* alphabet. 

Or Comic Sans - that would have been wonderful - a very proper mistake.

Could it be even worse. Why yes it could.