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>The same is true for many other areas of dangerous or disease-inducing
>historic working conditions if you want to be "authentic" <snip>
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>Patrick Boylan
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Thank you for this thoughtful piece - the Viking example is especially
interesting...

I recall reading in, I think, the Journal for Education in Museums (the UK
Educators' annual) about an interpreter in a former textile mill discovering
that an older lady in her group had actually *worked* in a textile mill, and
had quite different memories of the experience than the interpreter was
retailing. Every interpreter's worst nightmare, I expect.

Mary Burke