I didn't grow up in Drew Co. or even in Arkansas for that matter but Christmastime at our home was very much patterned after my mother's childhood from that area. We had pecan pie from pecans that our aunts would send us from their homes near McGehee and Pine Bluff; my mother made divinity and potato candy from recipes handed down to her. My Aunt Sylvia, transplanted from northwest Arkansas, would always make ribbon candy which we thought was magical. She also made some kind of orange and lemon candy from the peels of the fruit. My parents, aunts and uncles always spoke sadly of their lives "back home, in the old country" and I now realize it was because they had been so poor. Family was what mattered most and there was very little "to do" about the material presents. These are all the good things that I now try to pass on to my children during our own Holy Days of celebration. Jo-Ann Stephens