My time in the theater has given me great appreciation for the combining of what you know with what you can do with what you have to work with to spark the imagination of a new generation to carry on the expansion of what is known. Thanks are owed to all like Todd, Dall, Nighthawk, and, of course,
our own Peter MacDonald who work so hard to do this: work, teach, dig out
more, inspire.

Often, the tough part is determining what is actually known and discerning the difference between that and our understanding of it. All too easy to
confuse the two. I'm sure Heinrich Schliemann spent a lot of time in libraries reading reading about how Troy was quasi-crypto history, but he put his feet on the path and dug it out.

We all, like Groucho, appreciate the value of entertainment. Some of us,
however, are more interested in the truth than the illusion of knowledge.
How else will we have a chance of learning whether our ancestors wore
white or off-white or un-dyed hose at least occasionally?

(Back on track!?)