How about the blue collar guy who becomes a self-taught historian?
Does he also get points for learning something outside his skill set?
Paul
You'll meet a LOT of guys like that in reenacting.
Applies to every era but Civil War reenactors immediately come to mind.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
