Once Unofficial HCR

You have co-opted, stolen (in fact if not law), destroyed and/or deleted the hard work, creative output and efforts of scores and scores of people…  Altogether a huge amount of productivity, creativity and shared efforts you did not even slightly participate in, and to which you contributed absolutely nothing…

Dear Professor Richardson, In late 2019, a Facebook group was created called The UNOFFICIAL Heather Cox Richardson Resource and Discussion Room.  Three folks came up with the concept and one of them, Bec Kemp, opened the group from her FB profile.  The other two, Rana Suzan and Mark Hackler became Admins for the group and curated its content closely to be sure that it would always be a positive reflection of the person it was named for.  For reasons we...

I believe it may be time for at least some of us as a group to begin discussing our original group’s takeover, hijack or coup, whichever term you prefer, on July 3… ?? Discuss how we can come to some better terms, collectively, with what has happened, and how we want to go on from here… At least that is what I am hoping to initiate, with this post… And in part this is also an attempt to set some...

On July 3rd I had no idea what had been happening behind the scenes on the Unofficial HCR page, nor that all of us would be affected by it.  It wasn't until mid-evening, when I received a PM from John, that it became apparent...

The narrative further below, written by John Fridinger who was the sole Administrator of the Unofficial HRC Discussion and Resource Facebook private group for the past year, is his recap of what transpired just before July 3, 2022 and immediately after that day.   It shows clearly his different attempts to assuage the owner of the FB page to leave it, to let it continue to serve the 38,000 members it had accumulated...

Thanks so much for following the link we provided to you. No, this isn’t a new Unofficial HCR Discussion Facebook group…..not yet. This is a temporary home for those of us who nurtured the original Unofficial FB page as we regroup and determine how best to move forward...

Thank you for coming to explore the new Discussion Group we are envisioning. We have followed the daily Letters from An American written by Heather Cox Richardson for many months. She seemingly never fails to instruct us and cause us to perhaps dig a little deeper into what is happening around us...

I have been the sole primary Administrator of the UNOFFICIAL Heather Cox Richardson Resource and Discussion Room Facebook private group since the previous sole primary Administrator, Rana Suzan, asked, vetted and then made me so on June 29, 2021... I had previously been an active regular member of our group for most of its existence... On July 3, 2022, just a few days ago as I write, in what could reasonably be described as a hostile takeover, or coup, I...