This past Monday, I visited Livingston to see the house my dad grew up in. The present owner of the house was kind enough to give me the "grand tour." The house is located on West Main Street and was built in 1842. It was like taking a step back into the long ago past around the turn of the century! I could imagine my grandparents, my future dad, and aunts and uncles living their daily lives in that house. Later, my aunt gave it the name of "Pleasant Ridge." I then drove to Gainesville and had a wonderful tour guide there who took me to the old Presbyterian church and gave me a history run-down of the area. It was my great-uncle who ran the American Hotel in Gainesville until the late 1920s. Ah, such history! Gail McMahon