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There is a television show on PBS called “History Detectives”.
I saw it last night. One man found a ticket to a basketball game where Jim Thorpe played — no one knew he had played professional basketall before. Another man found a document where some African slaves were freed in the 1650s I think it was, in Dutch New York, they were given land. They researched it and found a descendant of one of them. Other interesting things were found.
http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/
They will investigate old documents to unravel old family stories, obscure documents found, et cetera.
At the bottom of that web page there is a place to “submit your mystery”.
Linda — Why doesn’t someone submit the term “Eastern Blackfoot” with an essay on the topic, maybe the one you wrote on the saponitown website?? 🙂
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That’s a fabulous idea. Should we wait till we have our evidence in better order, after we’ve quantified it the way we’ve been talking about doing?
Or should we jump on it now? I watch that show all the time. Maybe it would be good to get a little exposure now, might encourage more work.
Problem is with TV shows, you’re at the mercy of their treatment. They might decide to make us look foolish.
Linda, I’ve looked foolish so many times, altho I’m not immune to bee stings and bites from red ants, it doesn’t feel much worse than a strong misquito bite anymore.
TV shows have a way of dissapearing if the ratings go down, and their cast members often are not aware of it sometimes, why not utilize a liltte free research while it’s possible?.
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