No muskets for British town Christmas
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
WIMBORNE, England, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The deputy mayor of Wimborne, England, said he has ended the town's 400-year-old tradition of firing muskets into the air to celebrate the coming of Christmas. Deputy Mayor John Burden said he made the decision to bar the town's reenactment group, known as the Militia, from firing their muskets into the air to celebrate the lighting of the town Christmas...















