Hi Everyone, The creative genius and sharing spirit of so many who create Web sites hosted by RootsWeb are exemplified in the Merrick County, Nebraska pages. Under its "Online Resources" section one finds "The Funs of the Pioneers," as remembered by Frank McConnell. Here are tales about things other than the hardships and sad events the pioneers endured. They had fun, too. Don't miss "Bill and the Widow." It begins . . . "Wife," said Ed Wilbur one morning as he sat stirring his coffee with one hand and holding a plum cake on his knee with the other and looking across the table into the bright eyes of his neat little wife, "Wouldn't it be a good joke to get bachelor Bill Smiley to take Widow Watson to Barnum's show next week?" http://www.rootsweb.com/~nemerric/olres/funs/FOP.htm I hope this information helps. If you have problems or further questions please let me know. :-) Thanks, Mike ************************* Michael G. McManness, a Jayhawk through and through, eating, sleeping, and bleeding Crimson and Blue near the University of Kansas. Family genealogist and research historian. "Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." --- Phillip Brooks *************************