Wightman

The castle has entirely disappeared, and its site is now partly occupied by fish-curing premises, and partly by a large antiquated tenement called Wightman's house.

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 John Mackay Wilson 1819

"That beats old Mis 'Wightman's quilt that got the blue ribbon so many times at the county fair."

Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

Money: The Wightman-Weiber Foundation donated money from a punitive damage award in a train/car crash case to Public Citizen to do research on the issue of sudden acceleration.

Corrections and clarifications 2010

But the names have stayed largely the same: this issue features Wayne Wightman, who I remember from the edgy "The Metaphysical Gun" in 1986, and recent issues have featured Bradley Denton, whose "Sin-Eater of the Kaw" resonated with me deeply in my youth, and Marc Laidlaw, whose "Uneasy Street" I loved.

READING: F&SF (Jun/Jul 2009), New Yorker (May 25, 2009), darkerblogistan 2009

It was also good to see Wayne Wightman still writing -- I missed his "A Foreign Country" last year, and need to track it down online, but this dark story is a nice, straightforward chronology of the annihiliation of the human race by rapidly-evolving well-camouflaged insects.

READING: F&SF (Jun/Jul 2009), New Yorker (May 25, 2009), darkerblogistan 2009

Norris Williams and Hazel Wightman as the mixed doubles champions of Olympic tennis.

Scott Jordan Harris: Hingis and Federer Could Reignite Tennis's Olympic Flame Scott Jordan Harris 2011

Wayne Wightman: "In the Realm of the Heart" (Asimov's, August 1985)

Free Fiction, Fresh & Huge! 2008

Kathryn Wightman creates some really interesting handblown-glass pieces using bold colours and captivating shapes.

Handblown Glass by Kathryn Wightman 2008

Kathryn Wightman creates some really interesting handblown-glass pieces using bold colours and captivating shapes.

The 2008-09 collection from Artecnica 2008

“Of the old crowd only Wightman, Davidson, Tommy Graham, Harvey, and the hefty Irishman Connell and myself remain, as well as Reid and Crossley,” he wrote.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010