Maybe culprit is the wrong word. 

Me culpa , “accepting the guilt” was the position I was coming from.  My dictionary provides mostly definitions that carry hints of criminality or misdeeds for the word culprit. I mean that Tilghman was the person who supposedly started the project. He is the culpable human that must take responsibility for starting something which seemed to consume a lot of the time available to his wife and also the time of Alcanoan Grigsby. 

Who knows, there may have been a lot of others involved in some way or other, which we have no way at present of knowing about.
I know that it has consumed a lot of my hours over the last year and a half. My time is explainable as perchance, a bit  of obsessive behavior, which I prefer to call following a line of coincidences. 

The slight change in perspective which has appeared in my life,  in retrospect, seems almost inevitable, but it required a catalyst . The persons I’ve run up against, through out my life include several who could have been that catalyst, but for some reason it took a 114 year old book. 
Some have said the book is a very good read, I hate that type of talk. A good read can be equated with finally taking a long awaited “good elimination of water”.

The reality is that it is an intriguing book, it is something which I appreciated spending time reading. I also reveled in researching the who, what for, and where ever of its appearance. It’s pages  carry adventure. It’s pages carry and lay out succinctly, IDEAS worth PONDERING. I am also of the opinion that there are at least two levels at which one may read the book.

I am positive that Dr. Tilgman A. Howard Lowe started putting the book together.