However, like a politician running for the Presidency, he leans on too many individual visitor comments to either quantify his argument or to serve as his pivot point for a transitional topic. Many times, I felt a letter from “Joe the Plummer in Pennsylvania” about to appear as a source for Colonial Williamsburg's policy change in employee healthcare coverage. After a while, this device rings hollow and the reader feels that better historical writing methods or quantitative analysis (Colonial Williamsburg must have done some customer surveys, etc.) could have been incorporated. Despite this, Greenspan presents a compelling account of Colonial Williamsburg’s struggle to serve many interests from historical accuracy, social history, and a center of family entertainment. He successfully argues that Colonial Williamsburg’s constant evolution of its presentation is reactionary rather than that of a proactive leader of social history and
However, like a politician running for the Presidency, he leans on too many individual visitor comments to either quantify his argument or to serve as his pivot point for a transitional topic. Many times, I felt a letter from “Joe the Plummer in Pennsylvania” about to appear as a source for Colonial Williamsburg's policy change in employee healthcare coverage. After a while, this device rings hollow and the reader feels that better historical writing methods or quantitative analysis (Colonial Williamsburg must have done some customer surveys, etc.) could have been incorporated. Despite this, Greenspan presents a compelling account of Colonial Williamsburg’s struggle to serve many interests from historical accuracy, social history, and a center of family entertainment. He successfully argues that Colonial Williamsburg’s constant evolution of its presentation is reactionary rather than that of a proactive leader of social history and