In a message dated 11/11/2005 7:32:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, Slooogin@aol.com writes: Ginny, Carol Anne and Listers.....I would like to join you all around the Thanksgiving table. I had few ancestors who lived in St. Anne. My gr.gr.gr.gr grandfather Michael Allain was there right at the beginning ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Many thanks to Mary Boudreau for these interesting mini-bios! I have often wondered at what time of year the Allain family first saw what would become St. Anne. . . surely not in mid-winter or a cold grey day in March! But on a soft May day, the area would have ben irresistible! Maybe we can find out now. And the families that went to Nebraska in 1868 ??? What was the allure, I wonder. Free land, maybe. The horizon. A change of scene - surely! Inquiring minds want to know. We'll want to ask. This is shaping up to be a great group! Best to all, Ginny