How about a history section

[alma]

Hi, I'd like to have a place where we can talk about history as we understad it, not written in stone. alma

[Buck]

Boy! I like history too but please.....What kinda
history do you mean?

There's a LOT of history to choose from. ;D ;D

[jim]

Revisionist of course! :D

[admin]

Hi, I'd like to have a place where we can talk about history as we understad it, not written in stone. alma
Alma.

Would you post a short example of what you mean?

Anyone else interested in regular participation in such a board?


Oliver

[alma]

Hi, Oliver. I posted something on germany today, odds and ends, part of history that aren't generally talked about.

I want to write a little about the gold rush to alaska and some other things that i have come across in my time and found interesting and informative.

--nothing earth shattering. I'm not a scholar in ancient and medieval history or anything deep like that.

Hope this is going to be ok. I'm 85 and have been through a lot of historical things in my time, and made some history myself in the 60s,

I like to write about some of these things, too, like being involvved in the democratic convention in chicago in 1968, working at martin king's headuarters, knowing some of the builders and shakers of the time.

I lived in d.c. during an amazing period of time, am not a scholar, only an innocent bystander who dared to jump into the fray, and so glad i did. love, alma

[texas-mom]

I know I'm new and all, but I'm a long time lurker. I would enjoy a history secton. There is one on another board I hang out on; it got a lot of attention at first, people discussed their favorite periods in history, and various books they had read or were reading.

And I'm not a liberal or democrat, but I would enjoy reading some of Alma's experiences during the '60's. I did consider myself liberal back in those days LOL.

[annabella1]

I think a history section would be interesting especially if people can post about things they lived through. Or maybe a different point of view of something that happened from people who were there or have researched it.

[MadTripper]

Depending on the amount of interaction expected, why wouldn't it be more feasible to give Alma her own blog? She would have the ability to document any topics she wants and comments could be made as needed. I guess I'm looking at it like this. She wants to put information out that really doesn't warrant any feedback. Sure, there could be questions like, "What was it like during such and such event?" More like telling stories or writing a digital book.

Just a thought.

[alma]

Yeah, i'd like to tell about some of my ventures in d.c. in the sixties.

I worked at dr. king's headquarters at 14th and u streets for sevral months and was there when he was assassinated in memphis, as i recall..

Apparently, there was a lot of hot talk on the streets blaming whites, so some of our friends brought a car around and drove us and other white folks out of the area.

Once we were home, they contacted us after the riots started at about the same time that we left.

They asked for us to contact their folks out of state to tell them they were ok and, after things calmed down a day or so later, they asked for us to bring in food because most of the stores were closed, so we did, and dodged a lot of tear gas when we did.

The national guard were on the streets by that time and some of the little kids were hastling them and they threw some tear gas at one point and it got us all.

I've only got a minute for now but this is what i'd like to talk about, among other things that i experienced at that time in that area, and other things i've checked out in my time.

Maybe history per se is not the correct title. Maybe it should be personal historical experiences or something.

I'd sure like to hear what others experienced from their side of the mountain. --maybe some soldiers retrning from iraq, or even still there where a lot of history is being made today.

--people rom new orleans and other places, california fires, floods, hurricanes, droughts. They can tell us like it really is without media bias, or some personal agenda..

Maybe it could be like our own personal newspaper.
love, alma

[RangerRick]

Don't really see the need. History is a great teacher so it seems to me it fits very well into the "Education" section that gets very little usage as it is. If you cut the pie too thin the slices lose taste.

Rick