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[BettyO]

I'm glad you didn't Laurie!

I guess "price" is a consideration nowadays in this economy, which is unfortunate. Unless you really care; like the Nat Geo Channel or Spielberg and concerned with "doing it right", it'll only end up as filler fluff - most certainly NOT history. A lot of times these TV/Movie production crews are only concerned with what they perceive as "entertainment" and could care less about the message that they are sending the general public with their "they won't know the difference anyway" philopsophy. This is how bad history myths are born -"Hey, I saw it on TV/the internet so it must be true!" Not! When such things are aired they are really doing the general public a disservice - not only about the history of our nation and it's preservation; but that which will be handed down to future generations. It also does a big disservice to the museum/historic site. I think that in a lot of instances, the site is basically "duped" by these productions, with the facts being given, and then the producers going back out to LA or whereever they are from and filming their misconceptions and fiction out in another area. They then "meld" the two together and what comes out in the final is something that appears to be sanctioned by the historic site, when it actually is not!

OK - off my soapbox.....