The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    What's up with the pitchforks?

    After a brief sojourn, I find I have come back to a blossoming of pitchforks.  I know it is now spring in the northern hemisphere, but why the plethora of tynes on a barge pole?  Is this akin to some secret masonic TPM handshake?