There are a lot of unanswered questions that are arising through research that will need to be answered in order to be factual and truthful. Asking them is the first step into resolving them.
I was not aware of Alternative Historical Fiction nor was I aware of alternative or more than one ending or reader write your own ending. It addresses my writing rigidity and has stimulated my creativity. Interesting. Here at the end is some Alternate Benjamin Franklin History Thoughts.
Time Period 1978 Dillon Colorado, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area
What were the thoughts of the day?
Who were the escapists?
What were they escaping from? Family Business? Law? School? Failed Marriage? Failed Business/ Love of Mountains and Skiing?
Why did Keystone Ski Area and its Parent Company want the Ski Area Arapahoe Basin so badly.
Why did Joe Jankovsky sell the Mountain. It would have been hard to raise 5 million dollars in the 1978 economy but did he even try?
Who was Senator Dansforth? What generation of Dansforth was he?
Was he an all or nothing at all individual?
What part did the politicians of the day have to do in orchestrating the circumstances of the sale?
Did the Senator or the Politicians have anything do to with the passage of the Skier Safety Act of 1978 the would cause Joe to sell.
Who passed the Act? The U.S. Forest Service?
Why did the laid back attitude of the Basin attract so many wandering hippies and soul searchers? What was it about the mountain that filled the hippies and lost souls with joy, happiness and pride for an American Nation? Was the fact that the bragging rights of the Highest Lift Serviced Mountain In North America actually mean that much (too as Gertrude Stein would have said Another Lost Generation) (Of the VIetnam War) Politics of the era?
Why after 46 years am I still obsessed with writng the story? How did my friends that I skied with there feel? How did all the people I brought there over the years feel? What did the story mean to them? Were they as affected by the sale or did it mean anything to them? I am a lover of Mountains and the American National Forests and the Disappearing Wilderness, how did Joe, his nephew Tom and my friends over the years feel about the ski area and sale to Keystone Corp?
The setting for my Historical Work would be just prior to June 10, 1752 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and Benjamin Franklin is considering his theory on electricity, he believes that there is some form of energy but he is not exactly sure what that energy is. He spends hours in his study designing ideas of how to figure out what this source of energy is. He begins conducting experiments. He is not sure if storms, with lightning or the sun with it’s rays, or rain with a deluge of water is a creative force.
The alternatives are evident, we all know that Benjamin chose to hook a key on a string that was struck by lighting and how that scenario ended. What if instead he had taken a dark piece of metal and exposed it to the sun’s rays and found out it became very hot and he wondered how he could transfer the heat or a way that he could store the heat generated by the sun. He could have invented a small cube of material that harnessed the sun’s energy and could have been brought into a house to heat them. The cube. if attached properly could have also generated the electricity he was searching for. The possibilities of Benjamin’s Cube could have revolutionized the world and given access to heat and power to all people of all nations. From the largest of mansions in the city to the remotest straw hut in a village in Africa, Benjamin’s Energy Cube could have powered the largest of factories for free. (When the sun shone) Of course Benjamin would have discovered a way to not only harness the energy he would have come up with a way to store it or that the cube could be set in a receiver to be recharged from the (Mother Cube) that had all the energy if you will.
If our friend Benjamin had been flying his kite with his key and the rain had been coming down exceptionally hard the force of the water may have moved the key that was not tied properly down the string and he would have thought that water is pressure and is a source of power. They already used it to move grinding wheels for Grist Mills. What if he came up with a way to use the water force for something else. He already had the concept of electricity, he may have invented the turbine engine to generate power years earlier than it was invented.
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