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# GKC Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/35700/
- Published: 2015-01-21T07:28:20.000Z
- Updated: 2015-01-21T07:28:20.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

**Background**: When I was the editor of *[Gilbert Magazine](http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)*, I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full of Chesterton ancedotes. They were idiosyncratic, historical, and Chestertonian. He gave me permission to use them here. I hope y'all find them as interesting as I have over the years. Most of them have never been published.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Chesterton-Mug-235x300.jpg "Chesterton Mug")

Chesterton Short(s)

The Winter 1995 issue of *In Review* magazine was dedicated to children's author and artist Hilda van Stockum. Stockum is quoted as follows:

> When I was nineteen, I went back to Amsterdam to study art, and there, in a library, I found G.K. Chesterton, who has since been my guiding light among mortals. I bought all his books, and felt how the sweeping broom of his intellect was cleaning the attic of my mind. \[Book of Catholic Authors, 1943\]

According to *In Review* co-editor Jean Ann Sharpe, Chesterton's "brisk intellect and spiritual acuity came at a crucial time for the young artist raised in an agnostic environment; it fanned to flame the spark of spiritual perception already alight within her."