Hi all, I have somewhat neglected this List after you all were here for the last History Fest. It's not my fault, it yours, you have about worked me to death. But, I have loved every minute of it. You may have notice, I likeing talking and telling stories about Jessamine County. I sometimes wonder, what if I had never had a interest in History, Kentucky or Jessamine County. I think about the people I would have never met. I would have never seen all those smiles, the excitement or been hugged by a total stranger. We would have never seen a grown man drop to his knees, and cry at the grave side of an ancestor, he had never known. I told someone one time I love history, life and people. Funny thing about history. If you stop to think about it, history is yesterday. This bring me to my point. I want to tell you another little story about Jessamine County. This took place a only few years ago, and started right here on this List. This is for the benefit of the new folk and new folks on the List. I think it may have all started with Shelia, out in Kansas. She and a few other on the List got together and decided the want to come to Jessamine County. At first nothing much was thought about it. The idea was kicked around about a year. Every now and then someone would come on the List and say, "can I go?". My wife, Mildred was president of the Historical Society then. I got permission from her and the Society to use the building, for these folks to meet. As time grew near for the them to come, I e-mail Shelia, and ask, how many did she think was coming? I myself was thinking about 10 maybe 15 at the most. She took a poll, and e-mail me, that their would be 33. Three day later, I e-mailed her back. I said; are you sure, are your kidding me? She said, yelp, the number is up to 55 now. All I could think of to say was, STOP! I knew at that point we had a tiger by the tail. Well they came, and by the time they joined with the Society we had one good size group. These people had come from all over the United States. As I recall their was two group that had came all the way from California. The brought with them books, family papers, maps, old photos. In one swift blow these people given us more history about Jessamine County's early people then we had ever known. We were determined to show our appreciation. We had picnics, we had bands, we went on tours, we went on boat rides. It seemed the harder we tried, to show our apprecaition, the hard they tried, and it has been that way ever sense. We had had a lot of good times, and I love you all. Ask anyone on this List that have been here, if Kentucky hospitality is not well, and flourishing in Jessamine County. If you are like me you want to leave something behind for your children, and grand children. Well, you have. You have help preserve the history of this county. Their is no doubt in my mind that you descendants for generations to come, will come to Jessamine County. They will know you have been here. It like Bryce once said, it's all happen because, "We Care". Clyde ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.