Our town reservoir was finished in 1961. But the old church records show forty-one people drowned in that same reservoir, all decades before it was ever built.
I moved to Hensley, a quiet town where everyone proudly mentioned its reservoir, built in 1961. As a history buff, I found the old parish burial register. It listed 41 people who drowned in 'Hensley Reservoir' between 1903 and 1959, decades before the town says it even existed.
