Although Lisacul has been a settlement since at least the Iron Age, there isn’t much in the way of written history until the 1901 and 1911 census, probably because few people in the area had the time or the inclination to write down what was happening other than in letters to be sent to relatives and friends abroad.
Events in Lisacul even made the front page of the Bisbee (Arizona) Daily Review.
In 2013, Lisacul produced The Gathering, a book comparing the Lisacul of 2013 to that of 1913, together with articles on subjects as diverse as dance halls, notable inhabitants and the handball alley. Before that, however, there are twenty-four years of Christmas Newsletters, from 1987 to 2010 designed to be read at home and sent abroad.
We’ve now got a Wikipedia page, and the on-going 365 project as ways to record what happens in Lisacul. The next project will be to copy the newsletters into digital format so they can be made available through the website and, with Heritage Week coming up in August, who knows what we’ll think to do.
