Hi again, I can mention one small story. I only knew my great-grandmother, known to me as "Grandma KIDDER," during the last 10? years of her life. My father had moved us into her farmhouse ~1947 and we moved out in 1952, and she died in 1958. So, I only knew her when I was young. So, I've had to learn more about her from my aunt, and another aunt who was her daughter-in-law. * She was born Louise "Lou" RICE and had one sister, Edith, and they seem to have been raised by their grandparents on the HUTCHINSON Farm. I'm told that Edith was the pretty, but studious one, who never married, and that "Lou" was the plainer one, who did marry and have children. And she was the "fun" one who liked to travel around New England. "Lou" married G. Sanford KIDDER in Princeton, ME, she and Edith had probably met him while visiting their RICE uncles and aunts and cousins in Lubec and Eastport, ME. "Sanford" and "Lou" came back to MA and had 3 kids. But, ~1915, when the kids were school-age, Sanford started spending more time in ME than in MA. So, "Lou" was basically a single parent during the 1915-1930's timeframe. But, she still liked to travel around New England, even visiting the KIDDER relatives in the White Mountains of NH. Several summers she took her kids to Cape Cod. They stayed in some campground. And, my aunt has said many times that her grandmother would spend time visiting a Native American lady. And that Native American lady has a "bird" which sat on her shoulders - presumably a parrot. No one knows who that lady was. I hope you're having a pleasant week. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) List Administrator * "Sanford" and "Lou" KIDDER had a daughter and then 2 sons. The son, Clinton, who was my father's uncle -- married my mother's sister. Think of the family-tree for them. Clinton, Jr., was my father's first-cousin and also my first-cousin. :o) ("Sanford" Jr. was estranged from his siblings and headed out to California in 40's or 50's. In 1958 he was in Riverside, CA, and he died there in the '60's. I tried to find out a little about him, and found out he was married out there to a lady from - Nova Scotia ! I don't believe he had any children, but he had step-children in CA. I have not been able to find out "where" he married - whether back here in New England and they both went to CA, or whether he married in CA. (Some information is in archives of Nova Scotia List.)