April/May '23 Lite Challenge: Map a historical portion of your hometown.

[Straf]

Does the map have to reflect the town as it is today or can it be contemporary with the historical portion that is being emphasised?

For example in my town there's evidence of Iron Age settlements, Anglo-Saxon settlements, there's ruins of a 12th century priory, and the 7th century school where Thomas Paine was educated still exists today. Do I imagine the way things looked in one of those time periods or do I emphasise the location of one (or more) of them on a modern map of the area?

[Henkmet]

Oh, there are some megalithic sites near the place where I live. Technically they are a few kilometers outside of town but I'll take my chances on that.
Edit to add: no, it's too far. I'll think of something else if I want to participate.

[Greason Wolfe]

Oh, there are some megalithic sites near the place where I live. Technically they are a few kilometers outside of town but I'll take my chances on that.
Edit to add: no, it's too far. I'll think of something else if I want to participate.

I am sure that as long as the location is considered to be a part of the town, it would be okay to work with. I am considering doing a map of the beach in my hometown area where the highway department, in their infinite wisdom, decided to use dynamite to blow up a dead beached whale back in 1970. While nobody was hurt, a chunk of falling blubber after the explosion caved in the roof of a car, and some chunks landed as far as a quarter mile away. The lesson to be learned here is that the highway department might not have been the best people to handle the situation.

[Chashio]

I am sure that as long as the location is considered to be a part of the town, it would be okay to work with. I am considering doing a map of the beach in my hometown area where the highway department, in their infinite wisdom, decided to use dynamite to blow up a dead beached whale back in 1970. While nobody was hurt, a chunk of falling blubber after the explosion caved in the roof of a car, and some chunks landed as far as a quarter mile away. The lesson to be learned here is that the highway department might not have been the best people to handle the situation.

Okay, you win on grounds of best ridiculous history.

[Henkmet]

I am sure that as long as the location is considered to be a part of the town, it would be okay to work with. I am considering doing a map of the beach in my hometown area where the highway department, in their infinite wisdom, decided to use dynamite to blow up a dead beached whale back in 1970. While nobody was hurt, a chunk of falling blubber after the explosion caved in the roof of a car, and some chunks landed as far as a quarter mile away. The lesson to be learned here is that the highway department might not have been the best people to handle the situation.

I'm sure the issue has been paved over by now.

[Greason Wolfe]

I'm sure the issue has been paved over by now.

Ironically, the location has been turned into a memorial park to commemorate the incident. Even more ironically, there was an explosive expert on site when it happened that said they didn't need a half ton of dynamite to accomplish the job and that they were using way too much. Even more ironic than that, it was his car that got crushed by flying blubber. Go figure.

[Bogie]

Ironically, the location has been turned into a memorial park to commemorate the incident. Even more ironically, there was an explosive expert on site when it happened that said they didn't need a half ton of dynamite to accomplish the job and that they were using way too much. Even more ironic than that, it was his car that got crushed by flying blubber. Go figure.

Ahhh, Irony is such a wonderful thing!

[Straf]

I am sure that as long as the location is considered to be a part of the town, it would be okay to work with. I am considering doing a map of the beach in my hometown area where the highway department, in their infinite wisdom, decided to use dynamite to blow up a dead beached whale back in 1970. While nobody was hurt, a chunk of falling blubber after the explosion caved in the roof of a car, and some chunks landed as far as a quarter mile away. The lesson to be learned here is that the highway department might not have been the best people to handle the situation.

All this time I thought you meant Florence, as in Firenze, in Italy

I heard about that incident on a podcast and the way it was told was way more crazy than when I read it. That would make a great newspaper article map