Good Morning, the Monett Historical Newsletter is out for this quarter. Gordon Gray is the contact person for that. If you don't subscribe to it you might want to send him an e-mail and find out how you can get an electronic copy sent to your mailbox. [email protected]   This quarter he featured my story on "Surfing for Photos", which included information about the Monett School System and some early photos to go with the item. But he has a lot more - in fact it is jammed packed with good stuff this quarter. As probably assumed, I am a regular writer for the quarterly but enjoy the other things that he always has included, too. Last quarter a nice article was one that Ted Roller wrote. Ted does a lot for them and is a pretty regular writer for the paper - those are always enjoyable. Ted puts a lot of work into being factual and so you can depend on his work being authentically verified with sources even if he doesn't always list the resource. Another interesting thing that we have going on is the Barry County genealogy blog. Most of us are new to blogging including myself, but I enjoy them because photos can be posted with what you write. Anyone can post to our blog without membership and this week the discussion has been about books on Barry County. I have it set where blogs that are posted come to my mailbox and this below is what that looks like. --------- In 1952 Nellie Alice Mills published "Historical Spots in Old Barry County", hardback, 154 pages published by the Free Will Baptist Gem, Monett, MO, and it was to tell us about the old spots of Barry that are to be remembered. Unfortunately, the book covered a lot of the same things that “Goodspeed's History” had already covered in 1889, except Nellie had some photos and of course Goodspeed didn't. Not to take anything away from Nellie's work, because it is a good little book, but it really didn't offer much about Barry County - and mostly covered the Monett area even dipping into Lawrence County some. She talked about the Plymouth Junction community and in that section she mentioned Walnut Grove, which is the New Site community. It is several miles from where the Plymouth Junction community was located. There is so much that could have been said about Plymouth Junction that wasn’t but perhaps space was a problem since the book is only 154 pages Posted By Donna Cooper to Barry County, MO Genealogy at 6/13/2010 07:02:00 AM Donna Cooper