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Hi! You've the unfortunately misfortunate misfortune of having worked, in some degree, on a page that I've suddenly taken an interest in for no valid reason. :)
You made that, right? The town square where I grew up is home to an original marker for the Ozark Trail (whatever that is). I looked it up on a whim because I suddenly wondered if anyone might have come to my hometown to photograph the thing. Anyway, now that I know you seem to have found out more about it than I, I thought I'd ask: where on earth you did you find out about this, and why'd you become interested enough to make a map about it?
Also, is it possible that the sources on which you based the map were incomplete?
I found out about this because the original article name didn't include "(auto trail)", so it conflicted with an article I wanted to write about the Ozark Trail (hiking trail). But I find all sorts of local history interesting, and topics relating to the period of transition from non-mechanized agrarianism to a mobile, technological society are particularly intriguing. So I came back to this article and decided to create a higher-quality vector-graphic map containing the same information as the original. Making maps is one of the things I occasionally do for fun, oddball that I am.
All I know about this topic is in the Wikipedia article or in the references cited there, particularly www.drivetheost.com/ozarktrails.html. I wish there was more. It's a good story, particularly Coin Harvey and Monte Ne. There's lots on the drivetheost.com site that would be good to see in the article, but it needs a broader base than what's found on that one site. There is more about Monte Ne to be found with Google, but not much that rises above the level of second-hand stories and folklore.
The map is based soley on the graphic found at www.drivetheost.com/ozarkmap.html, as documented on the image description page. Could there be errors there? Sure. But it was published by the Ozark Trails Association, making it a primary source. I think I might have corresponded with the proprietor of the drivetheost.com site about this. I'll see if I can find anything about it in my saved email when I get a chance.
What neither the original nor the new map explains is just what the difference is between those roads marked as "adopted" vs. "promoted". One might surmise that the "promoted" roads, being rather far afield, are other roads that were advertised (promoted) by the Association while not being part of the OT system. Can you imagine setting off across the seemingly endless expanse of Kansas in an old jalopy on questionable roads? No air conditioning, no exits cluttered with fast food, no GPS, and no cellphone calls to AAA road service. It would have been an interesting trip.
Thanks for responding! That is quite a strange distinction, innit? I would, by the way, wager that traveling a lot of those roads would still preclude cell phone calls to AAA road service. :)
I keep thinking there ought to be a local source of information for that kind of thing, but the only one I can remember seeing is the actual text on the marker itself, and I'm not certain that's the kind of source that Wikipedia likes. I'm curious now, though. I'll see if I can't find something--and get around to taking a picture or two next time I visit my parents.
As far as I can tell you removed the whole of Longview's History Section in November 2009. You stated that it was removed for copyright violation. This was and is not correct. All the information used in that section is used by permission of the author of "Traditions of the Land - The History of Gregg County" - Eugene W. McWhorter. McWhorter also wrote all the copy used in the official website for Longview Convention and Visitors Bureau. Attribution and citation were provided.
In the event that the attribution and citations were not sufficient I have restored the content and added citation following each section. I have also added acknowledgment, citation and permission statement at the top of the section and it applies to the whole section.
Perhaps, you will understand and not summarily assume what is not true and remove good and accurate history.
Your actions left open the opportunity for another (perhaps yourself not signed in) to place grossly erroneous information about the origins of Longview, Texas and how it found its name. What replace the information you removed was fable, false and something we try hard to keep from being spread as inaccurate account of our history.
I came to this page via a link on the Woodward Academy page. If this is not the proper place to comment, please let me know at [email protected] and/or [email protected].
In your list of notable graduates you list Amy Carter. I do not believe she ever attended Woodward. While Academy Alumni pages list an Amy L. Carter as a member of the class of '85, Amy Carter's Wikipedia page lists her as attending Tri-County High School in Buena Vista, GA.
In fairness I should note that Jeff Carter (Donnel Jeffrey Carter) did graduate with the Woodward Class of '70.
At this point I can not provide links / hard copy documentation. The information comes from memory (member of the class) and access to the alumni area of the Woodward website.
Um, I don't know a thing about it and have nothing to do with that entry. I don't know squat about Woodward Academy and probably the only connection I have with that article is I suppose it may be on the list of schools I've collected on my personal watchlist just because they're such good bait for vandals. The delinquents can't resist defacing their schools' articles — it's like shooting fish in a barrel. If the article history happens to show that info appearing on one of my edits, it would only be because it got restored when I reverted some kind of vandalism. The original author would have to be someone else. --Kbh3rdtalk04:38, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thou
Hello. The Featured Article Thou is currently up for review, and needs some active editors to help restore it to a high-quality. I noticed from the history that you were active there previously, and so thought I'd let you know. Thanks. -- Quiddity (talk) 22:15, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Look at the bottom of the talk page you must be referring to, where it says:
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Note particularly the part which states, "Some IP addresses change periodically, and may be shared by several users."
Then note the timestamp on the comment about the Mars edit. That comment was created on 9 January 2008. So, if you put two and two together (go ahead, I'll wait), you'll eventually come to the realization that that comment was left close to 3 years ago for someone other than yourself who was previously loaned the same IP address by Bell Canada Sympatico HSE. --Kbh3rdtalk21:05, 3 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
