Harley talked a lot about the cartography in the past and how science had been improving the accuracy but decreasing the ‘human influence’ in the making of maps. He also mentioned the Official State High Way Map of North Carolina, which is illustrated with drawings, photos, and various colors. Such a contrast makes me think about our timeline project: should we present the history that narrates what exactly happened to the lobstermen, lobsters, or Mid-coast Maine, or should we tell these stories with our emotions and interpretations in them? For maps, the scientific accuracy and the personal opinions seem to be incompatible, since the geography features are ‘objects’. Though they can be changed through time, the changes can hardly be different in people’s eyes. However, people may see histories in quite different ways. The evolution of lobster fishing is just texts and photos for us, but for those lobstermen, such progress is closely related to their livelihood. And artists who recorded the evolving progress are close observers even if all those development was tangential to their lives. I believe that what we shoudl do is neither simply retelling the recorded history through the timeline nor mixing all our own understandings with the facts. What we need to do is to collect information from different perspectives, and present all the facts, anecdotes and emotions. We are not doing science, we are summarizing different stories from different groups of people into a ‘history’.