Hello everyone, I found an interesting site while looking at a cousin's request for information on the Happy Hour Theater in So Greenfield, Dade Co Missouri ca 1920s, in which my gg uncle Presley Patterson Marsh was either involved or given complimentary notepads because he communicated with the pension authorities on them for his mother's Civil War widow's pension. Does anybody know anything about it? There was also one in Springfield, Greene Co MO, at the same time? A chain?? I ended up at a Greene Co History website that doesn't appear to be part of the official genweb network, but maintained by the Springfield-Greene Co Library. It has alot of information, brags endlessly on how wonderful the citizens of Springfield were/are (grin), etc. One of the more interesting features is that apparently in the early 1900s there was a series of old-timers dinners that included reminiscences of the "olden days" and early settlers. The length of these recorded reminiscences suggests that either the dinners went into the wee hours of the morning or they were later embellished in written form. Not only might you find some of your family there, but also will enjoy information on farmer's, city lives, etc. I would imagine that tall tales of their origins back east were passed on. For example in one story the mother of a Revolutionary War Soldier injured at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse NC rode all the way from Snow Hill MD to Guilford to nurse him and others. Now Snow Hill Maryland is on the Eastern Shore of MD. This would require a ride north to practically the Pennsylvania Border and then South. Perhaps she went west and then down the Old Wagon Road in the Shenandoah Valley like the Quakers migrated from PA to NC. At any rate quite a trek. Either her son required a very long convalescence (think how long it took her to get the information) or the tale was enhanced. She was obviously there because there is a statue erected in her honor according to the "orator". Here is the set of links for the oldtimer's reminiscences: http://207.160.233.22/sheproom/history/reminiscences/toc.html The Home page for history is here. Like alot of websites it appears to be adding all sorts of early histories (ie, entire books) for which the copyrights have expired. http://207.160.233.22/sheproom/history/index.html I don't think I've seen this site listed on the lists, and encourage you all to go look around...when you have a few spare hours. Enjoy! Janet Hunter