Talk:Fairbanks House
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[edit] Waaaay too long!
Monticello - 1300 words. Mount Vernon - 1800 words. Fairbanks house - 4000 words? With all due respect to whoever put in the time, this thing needs a serious haircut.
Starting with the easy ones:
Dendochronology report: gone.
Family History changed to History, much paring down
The subject of this page is the house, not the family history. The article is now a reasonable 900 words - more than it deserves relative to some other notable houses.... but reasonable, at least. My family has lived in Dedham for over 35 years, and I've probably seen 300 visitors to the house in that time. The page was flagged as overlong for a good reason. I've corrected the problem. The geneology is already on the Jonathan Fairbanks page, so it's not necessary to repeat here. MarkinBoston 16:36, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] History section
Part of the history section seems to be identical to material at http://www.familyorigins.com/users/k/e/e/Louis-J-Keester/FAMO1-0001/d157.htm but I can't tell which is copied from which. I did make wording changes including expanding the abbrev. Mass. RJFJR (talk) 18:59, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
