| BUT THIS GUY WAS THE STAR OF THE TRIP...IAN SIMPSON, A NATURALIST AND HISTORIAN. I WENT TO ALL OF HIS LECTURES. HE WAS BORN IN AUSTRALIA, CAME TO THE USA IN 1980, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, KNOWS HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY BETTER THAN A LOT OF PEOPLE....HE BLEW MY MIND OF HIS KNOWLEDGE, HE WAS DRAMATIC IN SEVERAL INSTANCES, VERY HUMOROUS.....I LEARNED A BUNCH, ABOUT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE, AND THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION. HE MADE IT SO INTERESTING, THAT I REMARKED TO HIM, THAT IF MY HISTORY BOOKS WERE WRITTEN LIKE HE TALKED, I MAY HAVE GOTTEN AN "A"...AS IT IS, I ALWAYS HATED HISTORY, AND PASSED THE COURSE BY THE SKIN OF MY TEETH! (please don't ask me any history that i "learned"....i perhaps forgot half of it, in my old age!) |
