-----Original Message----- >From: Jon Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jul 9, 2008 1:57 PM > >However, there is a social duty to respond to a not necessarily official >call-up that is enforceable by exclusion from protection or ejection >from the community.
Reminds me of something I found while researching a friend's genealogy. The setting was a small Michigan farming community in the 1850s. The author's recollections went like this: "The Dutcher family was stricken with smallpox. Freeborn Harry Banks was the only one around who had already had smallpox, so the community forced him to care for the Dutchers." The account gave no clue as to how he was forced, but I suspect it was just the exclusion from the community. Do it -- or no one will speak to you, help you with harvest or if your house burns down, or do business with you again. My father grew up on a small AZ farming community in the 1920s, and mentioned that if a house burned (a big risk when isolate ranches still cooked over an open fire and were lit with kerosene lanterns), the entire community was expected to turn out and help rebuilt the house. _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
