I'm gonna take a guess at this: Poor old Hadleysburg was in such a state of dogmatic bliss that it could only understand form, not content. That being the case, Hadleysburg could not conceptualize 'who' - not about a stranger, or even about itself. To illustrate: a bunch of cannibals might well say, "the missionary that came to dinner" - at least 'Christian cannibals' would... it being easy to make bar-b-q from a 'that', while being far more difficult to make it from a 'who'. Unfortunately for Hadleysburg, the stranger (missionary) was the guy who ran the bar-b-q. :) No matter MT's reason, though, I'm sure it was a good one. [log in to unmask]