Matthew and Charity Wilson, my paternal ancestors, who in 1745 emigrated from County Tyrone to Philadelphia, later settling North Carolina’s Catawba Valley
Bessie Bocock Carter (1929-2008), an unforgettable model of wit and gentility, whose maternal line issued from Ballyshannon, County Donegal
Jerry Burns (1941-2010), friend and former editor of The Blowing Rocket, who published At Home in Mitford serially before its publication in book form