[Foundation-l] Message to community about community decline

Tue Mar 29 16:39:49 UTC 2011

On 29/03/2011 16:16, Fred Bauder wrote:
> This
>
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Crestone,_Colorado
>
> is the village I live in. Perhaps the rule have been bent a bit, but I
> don't really see that civilization has been harmed, by doing so. What is
> a reliable source varies with the context.
>

Well my own village has a 'History' but I wouldn't bank on half of it 
being true. Travelling around, one comes across many of the same 
stories, indeed they are repeated in a number of village histories on 
WP. There are countless Four Crosses attributed to a Jonathan Swift 
story, or some other man of letters, and how many medieval 'Rose' pubs 
used to be the "Red Rose" or the "White Rose" until the War of the 
Roses. So one has to take a lot of it with a pinch of salt, and you 
can't really rely on the books either cos they are repeating much of the 
same thing.

But anyway with the above caveat there is a whole load of stuff to be 
discovered and written about, but it mostly involves original research. 
And BTW if the information available on English villages is poor, you 
should witness the paucity that is France.