This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xZC.2ACIB/2402 Message Board Post: Saturday Oct. 13, The Barton Reunion began with a bus tour led by Dean Campbell. (He was contributor of a new book just out this week by James A Howard called "DARK CORNER HERITAGE"). In fact, in the back of the book is a photo of Dean in his younger days. What a gifted man he is. Well, due to the bus tour being sold out before I registered, my wife Lee Ann and I took a little trip to the Echo Trading Post a few miles north of Travelers Rest. The owner has many decals to put on T-shirts. We picked out some cute decals and had him put them on T-shirts for our grandchildren. Anne McCuen, spoke to the group in the afternoon about "THE WAY IT WAS "WITH FAITH AND COURAGE" a story about her family geneology. Anne is the author of "Including a Pile of Rocks". Great job!!!! Terry Barton, the re-elected president of the THE BARTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY, then spoke on the important topic of "THE BARTONS AND DNA". Terry had the group in awe the whole time, as he explained the importance of all Bartons, men or women to get their blood tested. After Terry spoke, the Barton Historical Society had their Business meeting. The evening meal was a Southern Pork BBQ Dinner on the shore of the Look-Up Lodge lake, by Charles Hudson and his fine crew. Great food, great tastes!!!! When dinner was about over, I went to heaven!!!!!!!!! The BLUERIDGE ROUNDERS, a four piece band played the music that has been in my BARTON blood for many years. I was toe tapping the whole time the band played. In fact, a very cute Barton relative saw me doing my interpertation of the "Tarheel Stomp" and we then danced. I was then elevated to the next higher cloud in heaven. FANTASTIC!! If you like their type of music, you can go on line and order a CD. After the night air got chilly, we went to the dining hall and heard another great story by Charlotte Ross. When Charlotte was finished speaking, I was picked to draw a name of all those who had paid all fees in advance. Well, before I annnounced the winner, I showed the group how to fold the stub of the ticket a certain way, so that when the next time they enter a drawing, they will have better odds. (When I got home to Bellingham, I had a message that I had won a Prime Rib dinner for two). Once again, I would like to remind you that YOU, YES YOU, are a very important link in our Barton Lineage, please take a part by joining the THE BARTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY and the BARTON DNA PROJECT. You can contact the Barton Historical Society on how to obtain copies of the books or CD"s that I mentioned above. They are a MUST HAVE, if you have any ties to the "DARK CORNER" and the Grassy Mt. area. Cuzin Wally,