"That's much too crude a picture of how history happens."
But the "history" the story describes simply did not happen.
In all our history such a thing has never happened, nor did we believe that it could!
We are sitting in the middle of a region where history is happening now.
"But history doesn't always happen in the most obvious places."
Probably just a draft, but there is such a sense of being here in a place where so much ballet history happened.
It's not the place most people would think of as where history is happening.
We find that much history would happen in a vacuum, save for our cameras.
It gave him much the same feeling as getting the reports every day, like watching history happen.
It reminds us that history doesn't happen in newspapers but to people.