http://legallysociable.com/2012/09/13/old-new-york-law-says-each-community-must-have-a-historian/ Pleasant musings on sociology, law, cities and suburbs, housing, and miscellaneous errata. Thu, 16 May 2013 22:05:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://legallysociable.com/2012/09/13/old-new-york-law-says-each-community-must-have-a-historian/comment-page-1/#comment-18861 Brian Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:08:12 +0000 http://legallysociable.com/?p=9529#comment-18861 Interesting idea.

]]> http://legallysociable.com/2012/09/13/old-new-york-law-says-each-community-must-have-a-historian/comment-page-1/#comment-18850 Summer Kinard Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:19:52 +0000 http://legallysociable.com/?p=9529#comment-18850 Given the timing of the law, just after the horrible flu epidemic of 1918, I’m surprised that other reasons were not cited. Having a large part of the population decimated suddenly might put communities in mind of preserving knowledge that they had expected to pass along orally.

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