Talk:Grosse Ile Township, Michigan

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I grew up in Grosse Ile and visit there frequently, and the "toll bridge" is white, not yellow. I'm going to change this.

In the History Section of this entry, there was a claim that a tunnel under the Livingstone Channel existed to assist bootlegging during the Prohibition. This is not correct as there was never a tunnel under the Livingstone Channel. This error has been changed.

recent changes

The recent changes to this article included blocks of text copied right from the copyrighted histories on the township website [1]. Other material was reworked sufficiently to aviod copyright issues. I do not have time this week to sort through this; however, I believe that much of the material and be recovered and easily rewritten. [User:rmhermen] 20:18, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Comments about recent changes

None of the text from the articles (http://www.grosseile.com/community/history/index.html) that members of the Grosse Ile Historical Society provided to the Grosse Ile Township Web site is copywritten. The township's Web site administrator placed a copywrite claim at the bottom of every page on the township's Web site; however, this claim for the Web site does not apply to information that members of the Society have provided (nor does it apply to a lot of other information on the site).

Specifically, the "Quick History of Grosse Ile" is not a copywritten document. The Society provides this document, written by a long-time member of the Society, to the public at no cost.

Moreover, the author of the "Quick History of Grosse Ile" document has no objection to use of sentences or paragraphs of information from this document without attribution (attribution would only be requested for using the entire text without changes).

All the basic facts (names, dates, places, actions, etc...) in this document were obtained from multiple sources and the author makes no claim to proprietary knowledge. These facts are well-known to people who care about the history of Grosse Ile. If it would be helpful, the author is willing to discuss this matter by e-mail.