Errol Craig Sull concluded with -- [...snip...] While Burns may not have delivered Twain at his gourmet best, >he did do one nice job in serving up the ol' boy so millions could walk away >just a bit happier about and a tad more informed of the who and what of M.T. >For me, that rates "satisfied" on my customer comment card. > dee c -- Fifty years ago, theological scholars were probably disappointed by some of the remarks and omissions of Bishop Sheen in his television programs. Twenty-five years ago, some astrophysicists and biologists were probably disappointed by some of the remarks and omissions of Carl Sagan in his television programs. Now some historians and other flavors of scholars are disappointed in bits of Ken Burns' television programs. The remedy in all of this is two-fold -- better scholarship by the presenters, and better presentership by the scholars. Should make for some interesting partnerships and cooperations. In my personal experience, there is my father's reaction to having his picture made beside "the Tom Sawyer fence" in Hannibal in the 1960's. It transformed him from a discouraged, under-employed, aging man with personal problems and disappoints to a man refreshed by the remembrance of "Tom Sawyer" from earlier days. The difference is obvious in the vacation pictures made before-and-after. No scholarship involved, just the transforming power of a good presentation at a good time. r d colvett florence al [log in to unmask] http://home.hiwaay.net/~deec -- an amateur's presentation