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Memorize your route, for maps and diagrams can lie. Learn to find north by tree moss, for your compass can forget directions. Keep a diary, for memories can become muddled. Save the letters you receive, for correspondences can be misinterpreted. Trust what you witness, for testimony can be false. Believe what you have seen, for photographs can be altered. Be suspicious of absolutes, for always and never are rarely correct. Yet, we must trust scholars to puzzle together scraps and construct a narrative. All the while remembering: history is only an educated guess. — Vonnie Winslow Crist