A close friend of mine who grew up in Owen Sound, Ontario (a smallish town about 2 1/2 hours northwest of Toronto), has occasionally recounted the many times she was dragged as a schoolkid to the Billy Bishop museum there. (Bishop, as you probably already know, was Canada’s most decorated  flying ace during WWI.) The remembered tedium of those visits — it not being the most exciting repeat destination for a second-grader, whatever else its merits — is such that she involuntarily rolls her eyes and sighs heavily whenever she hears the man’s name. Read More