Monday, July 7, 2014
What are your thoughts on documenting ACE and coaster history?
My printed platform reads "Redoubling our efforts in regard to documenting both ACE and coaster history." Because I had limited space I couldn't expound on what I really meant by that. It's entirely possible that ACE has been documenting its own history and the history of the roller coaster just as vigilantly as it was ten or twenty years ago. If it's not, it should be and should resume its efforts immediately. If it has been all along, it hasn't been very forthcoming with the general membership about what progress it is making. These are precisely the kind of presentations at Coaster Con that we need to restore. We need to know what kinds of interesting things have been discovered in our archives. We need to know if we've found information that enhances or contradicts what we already know about coaster history. This kind of material should not be a footnote in meeting minutes or reserved solely for publication (though publication, where applicable, would be nice too). It should be a topic for discussion at Coaster Con and/or our winter events. It is my hope that a lot of great work has been done over the past ten years and we just don't know about it because we haven't made a priority of showcasing it at our events. If that's the case, let's rectify this situation. In the event that this is entirely false, let's make documentation and discussion of ACE and coaster history a priority once again.