“She resisted telling the journalist that she had such a good, forceful ancestor as John Strange. But the proposition that guided her and made it possible for her to speak to them was that a person, if they wanted a result, had to do things themselves. John Strange had done things. He had not killed the British cabinet, but with redcoats from Sydney he had helped capture the Ribbon Gang. In a strange way, he believed in order and a town where you could have a tannery.”
