49) New Tales of Time and Space, edited by Raymond J. Healy
I got this by mistake – thought I was ordering the famous 1946 anthology edited by Healy and J. Francis McComas, but in fact it is a 1951 followup edited by Healy alone. For all that, I was not too disappointed, at least given my expectations of an original sf anthology of the period; there are average quality stories by Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, AE van Vogt and a half dozen others who I haven’t heard of, and the first publication of Anthony Boucher’s classic “The Quest for Saint Aquin”. Apart from that, the other one that really grabbed me was “Bettyann”, by someone called Kris Neville whose work I don’t think I otherwise know. It is the longest story in the book, about a Mid-American teenage girl who is forced to confront her own always half-suspected nature as an alien changeling; excellent, I thought. Is Neville’s other stuff worth pursuing?
Fontenoy is in Hinault. Huy further east near Liege.
The density of population in Belgium surprised me (I know that it shouldnt have) but places we assumed to be “villages” were actually suburbs of towns. And there was little sense of countryside.
What I do recall is looking for a place to lay the wreath.
You may be interested to know that a website (this was 1995 after all and we had hardly heard of the Internet) no longer updated because its owner, a leading Wild Geese folklorist, died in 2006…….asserts that Sarsfield was buried at St Martins Church (sic) and a “small plaque on the wall of this church marks the approximate location of this grave”.
The “folklorist” in question, was not always taken seriously by “historians” but its unlikely he was wrong about the plaque on the Church.
He was however heavily involved in Wild Geese Heritage and is conceivable that he was instrumental in getting a plaque erected sometime between 1995 and 2006.
Certainly in 1995 our Party was unaware of anything so specific.