CROWD CONTROL

WARNING!

The TOURISTS will COME!

Put “CROWD CONTROL” into your mind.

Figure out a scheme to remind yourself often.

Tony Horwitz wrote a book:

“A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (3/30/08) Hardcover –

March 30, 2008”

In the book Tony wrote about the Plymouth Rock, which may or may not be genuine.  The Plymouth rock appears to lose historical significance in the midst of a swarm of tourists, who degrade the surrounding countryside into looking like a carnival.

Then Tony tried to follow De Soto’s route.  Tony found himself on a “voyage long and strange.”

If you are encouraging the knowledge of Norse in Minnesota on the VIKING WATERWAY, you are dealing with a topic at least as twice as old as Plymouth Rock.

The visible evidence is of ancient copper haulers and then Norse in Minnesota is spread throughout the landscape for tens of miles on both sides of I-94 from Moorhead to Sauk Centre, Minnesota.

When the knowledge that the Kensington Runestone and the Viking Waterway are genuine appears in school texts, the tourists may come to central Minnesota in thousands of buses and hundreds of thousands automobiles.

THEN the Minnesota people along I-94 MUST have thought about CROWD CONTROL and must have have put the infrastructure in place.

People of Minnesota, who now enjoy the sense of independence on their relatively isolated farmsteads, may awake to find hundreds of tourists tramping down corn in order to see a boat lift.

So, CROWD CONTROL should be one of the first issues to be considered BEFORE making the VIKING WATERWAY general public knowledge.

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Advocates of Norse in Minnesota should coordinate with the established museums, Chambers of Commerce, mayors, town planning staffs, Sheriffs, Highway patrol, bus companies, county agents, Airb&B, motels, hotels, and other groups.

The question to consider is:

If the few people we see coming to look at Norse in America evidence now becomes a large mob of people in the years to come, will the Minnesota people in Norse land be prepared to show the tourists the evidence of Norse in America and yet preserve the Minnesota life style?

The question is easy to ask.  The answer takes a whole lot of thought.

Somebody should be thinking NOW.

 The future is coming, with those tourists.  

Better to plan then to regret the lack of planning.

After forming an organization, the first item on the agenda should be CROWD CONTROL.