The Beacon Newspaper gets some of it right, some of it wrong

My ego is officially stroked. The talk at the Acton Library was reported in the Beacon newspaper. For one on-line version [Click here]. There are a couple of different versions of the article but in each case reporter Nan Schnitzler gets some of the story right and some of it wrong. For example, although I was explicit about how NEARA had failed to get the Indians to acknowledge stone structures, she took me to say that NEARA had been the ones to convince the Indians. It is unfortunate to see something like this in print because it gives the wrong credit to the wrong people - nothing against NEARA but shouldn't my friend from Carlisle be remembered as the person who kept phoning the Narragansetts? There are other similar confusions - for example confusing what I was saying farmers did not do with what I said they did do. But overall there were a lot of different topics mentioned in my talk and the reporter did a fair job of keeping track of a number of them. The basic message that rock piles are to be preserved was given clearly and that is what counts.