In a recent documentary done by Piers Morgan on Donny
Osmond, Donny remembers his teeny-bopper days as some of his happiest. But he also regrets them; and if he could, he
would go back to when he was three years old, before his family was famous and
would live a totally different life. He
remembers having a sandbox, toy cars, and a best friend name Scott when he was
three, and it was all taken from him when his family moved to L.A. His story
reminded me of Vivian, Fort Barnwell. In
that story the man had completely rewritten the story of a photo he remembered
and had gotten it wrong. Donny has these clear memories of what his life was
like. Was it really that way? Or is that
what he’s created from his memories?
I got
the idea for centering our story around this historical event because I
remember watching a documentary about the Osmonds, in which this event was
featured. I remember seeing a clip of
Alan, Wayne, Merril, Jay, and Donny (The Osmond Brothers) walking down a street
that was blocked off to traffi and had barricades up and down both sides. Behind the barricades were tons of wild fans,
screaming and crying. The brothers were
smiling and laughing, spread out across the street, waving at their fans. Donny was wearing a brown corduroy suit. This is what I remember from the documentary,
and an event I think about a lot because I would have loved to have been there
that day.
All these
memories are part of history. History’s
truths are dependent on the person telling the story. We got the chance this week to write a
different truth into history. However,
this truth wasn’t based on our memory.
Since that is the case, there was no right or wrong interpretation to
this story. Adding our own mark on a
historical event, unlike Vivian, Fort
Barnwell, couldn’t be anything but right.
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