tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post862954702453012940..comments2024-03-28T02:46:03.227-04:00Comments on The Historical Society: Real-timeRandallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-13771314934698242852012-03-15T10:14:50.067-04:002012-03-15T10:14:50.067-04:00Dan, I think that going off down rabbit holes is m...Dan, I think that going off down rabbit holes is my biggest hurdle when researching. For Our Supreme Task, I found this to be particularly problematic with both Winston Churchill (who is the definition of "person of interest") and Franc "Bullet" McCluer, the man who brought Churchill to Fulton, MO. in 1946. I recall vividly sitting amidst stacks of folders at UMKC reading about all the state committees McCluer served on, all his charity work, and got 10 times more photocopies than I needed - leading to 100 times more work to weed through the fascinating but largely irrelevant details later. Something hypnotic about the archive environment. And then, with the Web, of course, it's all too easy to click my Evernote button and clip a page, and another one, and another, and then later wonder, "What the heck did I save these for?" Such are the burdens of curiosity!PWnoreply@blogger.com