What a great cautionary tale.  To paraphrase the centenarian's line in
_Titanic_ (sorry), "Thank you for that forensic analysis; the experience
was somewhat different."

Carolyn Breedlove
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On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Mary Burke wrote:

> <snip>
> >The same is true for many other areas of dangerous or disease-inducing
> >historic working conditions if you want to be "authentic" <snip>
> >
> >Patrick Boylan
> >
> 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
>