I don't know how I missed this post, but I'm glad to have read it now! Given my relationship with the Emily Dickinson Museum, I'm dying to know who it was who overheard you. And for what it's worth, I think you'd probably be a great guide for the museum! Not all of the guides are literary obsessives; some of them are just deeply interested in the history of the place and the people who lived there.
It was a fun tour. They have a lot of dinosaur footprints there that were discovered nearby, and we learned why the region was geologically primed for having that kind of evidence. What's also interesting to me was that the people who discovered them didn't know they were dinosaur footprints because dinosaurs hadn't been discovered yet.
I don't know how I missed this post, but I'm glad to have read it now! Given my relationship with the Emily Dickinson Museum, I'm dying to know who it was who overheard you. And for what it's worth, I think you'd probably be a great guide for the museum! Not all of the guides are literary obsessives; some of them are just deeply interested in the history of the place and the people who lived there.
I'm more confident in my abilities now that I've spent time studying Amherst's history.
Well, if you need a letter of reference, I'm happy to write one on you behalf!
Great story. How was the tour?
It was a fun tour. They have a lot of dinosaur footprints there that were discovered nearby, and we learned why the region was geologically primed for having that kind of evidence. What's also interesting to me was that the people who discovered them didn't know they were dinosaur footprints because dinosaurs hadn't been discovered yet.