Hi all, Good reading if you're into learning from historical precedents, this webpage relies heavily upon Harper's Weekly articles written over 130 years ago. Times change dramatically, but human nature is uncannily similar. The rules of the Senate during an impeachment trial are also quite edifying in our present context. <http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/> BTW. "Parade" The Sunday Newspaper Magazine published a good article, December 13, 1998: "Where Have All The Small Towns Gone? By: Lamar Graham The article is too long to post and the Parade Mag. website does not have it on-line. I was surprised when the author said; ..."In Kansas, people are so scarce that more land is classified as "frontier" today than a century ago.... If you are able to get a copy of the article, I think that you will it very interesting, especially, considering that many of our ancestors moved to the midwest and started farming there more than one hundred years ago. I am sure that they thought that all of their communities would grow, prosper and thrive forever. Bob Colby