I'm back.....from the Beall Family Reunion, and I survived!!! Actually, there were around 19 or 20 of us, and we were all running around Southwestern Colorado, dressed in tie-dyed T-shirts, bearing the symbol "Beall 1999". Someone asked us whether we were all from the same planet. My brother-in-law responded by saying, "Yes, we're waiting for our space ship to beam us up." Others wondered whether we were part of a family reunion and thought our T-shirt idea was clever!!! We celebrated my mother-in-law's 82nd birthday. She is a Warfield by birth and is planning to go to a Warfield-Polk family reunion in Maryland in the Fall. (She is also a DeLashmutt-Dorsey). We visited Telluride, Mesa Verde, and Ridgeway. We stayed in two bed & breakfasts near Norwood, and had a great time!!! We did have one powerful thunderstorm the other evening--something rather frightening to those of us in tents. Other than that, it was great! I came back with a great "murder mystery"--something I intend to use as an invention activity in my fall writing classes--and some genealogical information on the Inman line. If someone is looking for a John Henry Inman from Arkansas--my mother-in-law met a direct descendant of his in Montrose. I don't have the line with me today (it's still in my suitcase). But I'll dig it out and post it. Anyway, here I am. Today is the last day for my Monday-Wednesday class. I have two weeks left of my Tuesday-Thursday classes. However, my students are turning in their research papers on Thursday of this week. So I am about to be deluged. Barbara === Barbara Inman Beall, Ph.D. Professional Writer, Editor, Researcher Lancaster-Wormiston Press E-Mail: BIBeall@email.msn.com, BBeall43@yahoo.com Voice Mail: (303)556-5477 Snail Mail: P.O. Box 173, Broomfield, CO 80038-0173 "Love prevails!" -- Columbine -- April 20, 1999 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com