11-23-2018, 10:20 PM
(11-23-2018, 08:36 PM)Ed Hurst Wrote: It's not so far different when I helped write a local church history. I had no agenda, only a well-crafted story that folks would read. I got all kinds of stuff wrong because people kept giving me incomplete narratives. Eventually I gave up because they got all hot and bothered about a critical item that was not rumor, but was embarrassing to a handful of folks. There was also a false story everyone believed at one point, and their belief shaped a critical turning point in the church's decisions, and they didn't want that included. I told them anyone could write fairy tales.
Yeesh. That sounds like a situation. You could get most of it right, but get one or two things inaccurate and it all goes to pot. :/