In a message dated 1/12/2007 1:42:32 P.M. Central Standard Time, ROZIE10263@aol.com writes: In the 1880's to early 1900's my husbands family had a big business in strawberries & apples in Rudy, which is just north of Alma. farming was the way of life with just a few that were preachers, clerks and a couple drs. Rozie Rozie, My mother Mabel FINE ANDERSON told me that her father, Peter Pinkney FINE, and her uncle George FINE both raised strawberries, also. She was born in 1921 and remembered picking strawberries as a child. She also taught me that any peach that wasn't raised in Crawford County or Washington County wasn't worth eating! <grin> Kaye Larrabee Lubbock, TX