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To: Heyworth
I'm sorry but you are wrong.

Reenactors are like the people in period dress at Colonial Williamsburg, basically guides in period costumes.

Interpreting history gives the interpreters point of view on history. Depending on the personal 'vision' of the interpreters and their supervisors, you'll get the view they want you to see, rather than the facts so you can form your own opinion.
40 posted on 04/18/2006 11:13:29 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer ("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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To: hedgetrimmer
Depending on the personal 'vision' of the interpreters and their supervisors, you'll get the view they want you to see, rather than the facts so you can form your own opinion.

And you're already backing off your original position that historical interpreters=America bad.

Look, they're interpreters, not lecturers. Their job is to make history "come alive" for tourists. If you want "facts so you can form your own opinion," there are whole libraries out there for you. If you want to take the kids and let them see what it used to look like, you go see a historical interpreter at a historical site. Now, do you have some specific example of an historical interpreter giving an anti-American message, particularly this guy, since he's the one who kicked off your rant?

41 posted on 04/18/2006 11:24:47 AM PDT by Heyworth
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