My mother is 94 -- born and raised in Rosiclare, Hardin Co. Some years ago the family convinced her to write a 'biography' of her life. Most of it concerns the time after she married my father, but the first chapters tell of her life growing up in Rosiclare. She remembers (or heard from her parents) the 'show boats' (my grandfather would occasionally be asked to play trombone in one of the bands), floods, being baptized in the river (they had to break the ice), the ore cars running down the main street to the river barges, wakes in the home, crystal radio sets, etc. My children & grandchldren love to hear her talk about her 'growing up' days. My mother's family has been in the Pope/Hardin area since 1807, although most of them arrived about 1818. Suzanne Villa Park, Illinois