Thanks so much for all the guesses at last week's puzzler - a large number of you replied! Charles has posted the new puzzler for me; if you'd like to try your hand at a foreign language .... click on the URL in my signature line called Sandi's puzzlers and make your guess. While some are celebrating their team's Super Bowl victory (and it was a great game), let's relax and go back to 1881. The following unusual article appeared in the Cambridge (IN) Tribune on Thursday, 31 Mar 1881. "According to the Times, of Glasgow, Ky., there has been near that place the past month a robins' roost that equals the pigeon roots of olden times: "A cedar thicket of about sixty acres furnishes the birds a lodging place. About sundown every evening constant streams from every direction pour into the grove, and almost obscure the heavens in their flight. Night finds almost every bush in the thicket bending with its red-breasted load. For the past few weeks lovers of sport for miles around have visited the place, and every night the thicket is illuminated with the torches of men with clubs and sacks gathering the feathery harvest. "Mr. SMITH has killed over 2,000, and hundreds are carried away every night, but they don't seem to decrease; there are millions of them. Large quantities of them have been sold in town. They are very fat, and make, when well cooked, a dish good enough for anyone." Fried robins? For shame!! Franklin Gorin, in "Times of Long Ago" (1870) wrote that in the early days of the county that we had an abundance of birds in Barren Co, especially parakeets. He stated that there were so many flying that it made the skies look like a rainbow. They were chased out by the sparrows and mocking birds. I finished the 3rd of 4 classes on genealogy research at the Mary Wood Weldon Library Saturday. After returning from my symposium in Frankfort on the 12th for the KY Historical and KY Genealogical Society; I will be giving my last program for the library which will be cemetery walk at Glasgow Municipal Cemetery. I'll be showing the students how to clean and read the old stones - if it doesn't rain! We'll meet at the library at 9:30 and after a few preliminary remarks, will head out to the cemetery. See you all tomorrow hopefully - more bad storms coming in yet again! Sandi SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html