Talk:Mount Grace

Personal recollections edited
I edited out the opinion/personal recollections from material added by user:Jack Hastings, because, while interesting and touching, they are not encyclopedic. But because the comments are touching and interesting, I've included the original text below.--Pgagnon999 (talk) 01:58, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

"In the 1930's, the Civilian Conservation Corps built a picnic area on the west side of Rt. 78, at the bottom of the mountain, below the Gulch. The banks of the brook were walled with stone, they built stone fireplaces with grills, and roads so that people could drive to a picnic spot, and park. The hardwoods were thinned out, leaving only the White Pines. Lots of people from around here used that picnic area for generations. Oscar Ohlsen, from Town, was one of the caretakers."

"In the 1980's, the State stopped maintaining the picnic area. Brush grew up. The area started the transition back to forest. By the late 1990's many of the big White Pines were dead. The State logged the area, and left the slash on the ground to help new trees grow. It has been hard for people who loved this place to see this transition."


 * Hi Pgagnon999,
 * Thank you for editing my post. I don't know as much as I need to about the format and rules for adding to Wikipedia. The picnic area is one of the most important features of Mt. Grace for a lot of people, and I would like to preserve its history. How does one cite a source when it's personal memory? I would also like to add some information about the ski area at Mt. Grace.
 * Thank you
 * Jack Hastings —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jack Hastings (talk • contribs) 12:45, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi Jack, thanks for your message. First, and most important, keep in mind that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. So, as in any encyclopedia, material should be impersonal. That said, there's no reason why you can't include information about CCC projects, state logging, etc. that occured on the Mount Grace property, as these events can probably be verified as factual simply by looking at CCC or state records, newspaper articles, local history books, etc. Conversely, a recollection that "Lots of people from around here used that picnic area for generations" might be backed up with newspaper articles over a period of time that showed a pattern of community use that supports that idea, or some sort of article that looked at picnic area community use in general over a period of time. "It has been hard for people who loved this place to see this transition" would be a lot harder to justify in an encycplopedic format. Understand that the end result is an impersonal encyclopedic reference, not a personal memoir. It's not a question of whether or not your recollections are accurate ( I doubt that anyone would dispute that with you), its a matter of providing documentation for those recollections and making sure that the language is neutral, not opinion based. For more information, see wp:cite, wp:notability, wp:original research, wp:neutral, and wp:fact. Hope that helps.--Pgagnon999 (talk) 14:43, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

P.s., don't forget to sign your posts with your username when you leave messages. P.--Pgagnon999 (talk) 14:43, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

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