[Foundation-l] Message to community about community decline

[Fred Bauder]

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.

Fred

> If I look at the articles for villages in my area, they are mostly stubs
> and will pretty well always be so, as a lot of the interesting stuff is
> local history which is not available in main stream publications. Other
> than listing the pubs, the schools the bus timetable, and whether there
> is a Londis store, what else can be said about them? Well take this
> place:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Brington
>
> the church in that place contains a whole book full of history. The
> Spenser monuments are some of the most important in the country. The pews
> have C14 - C16 carved poppyheads, the chancel contains the tombs of
> George Washington's grandfather, there is stained glass by Edward
> Burne-Jones ...
>
> This place
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crick,_Northamptonshire
>
> has a Romanesque font sat upon three Atlas figures, and is one of the
> most important such works in the UK. A few miles away is another
> nationally important Romanesque font:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Haddon
>
> BTW that place also contains works by Pugin. And finally this place is
> chock full of works by Burne-Jones:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilsborough
>
> Whilst much of it is recorded in Pevsner he is often wrong, and often
> doesn't mention things.
>
>
>
>
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