...even if you don't care about history.
1. Because, as one of the city's generators of tourism, history is a contributor to the local economy. If it is not developed to its fullest and most intelligent extent (and it certainly has not been in recent years; many --not all--of the officers and board of the South Bethlehem Historical Society share the blame for that), the entire city suffers.
2. Because the destruction of one organization--any organization in any field, but especially in a field like this--is a restriction to your civic right to freedom of association, and also your right to pursue whatever interests you want to pursue.
3. Because some serious historical revisionism, the effort to re-write history as it never was, is going on here. Historical revisionism is very dangerous because, in interpreting a heritage as it never was, it leads us to a future based on misunderstanding.
Historical revisionism is a form of propaganda. There certainly can be positive aspects of propaganda, as when a master like American (and Fountain Hill-born) writer Stephen Vincent Benet wrote to bring out all the finest aspects of the American heritage and to burnish them in the face of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. But no healthy future can lie down a road that begins with deliberate distortion.

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