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.