“The gold work was quite impressive,” he said. Gardner’s interest was also piqued by a family crest, a Latin inscription, and the initials of the owner, RDMC. The crest, a hand holding a dagger and a ...

NoneThe Chisholm clan, whose centuries-old motto was I am fierce with the fierce, was a family of farmers, loggers and earth-movers. Mechanical competence was considered a necessity of life. So at age ...

March 1945 I joined the "Clan Chisholm" as Fourth Officer. She was loading in Glasgow for India. Although the war had ended in Europe we still sailed on convoy.

If Ojai restaurant owner Nigel Chisholm didn't already have an ancestral Scottish family crest with "I am fierce with the fierce" as its motto, he might have created one. "It means don't give up.