[Foundation-l] Message to community about community decline

[Fred Bauder]

> 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.
>

Ghost towns in the American West are much written about.

Fred