Well, Hey, Howdy! I know, I've been bad, but I really haven't had a lot of time to spend on the computer lately. Fall's not only arrived, but it's bringing winter news with it. We put the play on last month, as you know, and I went right to 40-hour weeks immediately afterwards. I know, most people work that much at their paying jobs, but I'm not used to it and it's taken me some time to adapt--I'm on my feet most of the day, and by the time I get home, deal with family things like dinner, laundry, school stuff, I've been too tired to do much but crawl into bed. Forget getting online to delete the hundreds of junk mails I've been getting, or doing any research. A little over 2 1/2 weeks ago, the young man doing the Bald Knobber documentary for his master's thesis at OSU (Oklahoma City) called to say he needed to film some scenes by the first week in December. So Ingrid (who's working 50+ hours/week), Rick (who's working even more), and I went location scouting, cast calling, costume gathering, and dealing with other stuff that is the next logical step from our play. We filmed 4 different scenes on Sunday; Damon brought his crew, the cast did wonderfully well, and for our first time doing this, the weekend went extremely well. Attrition was not too high, as far as cast fallout and location glitches--we managed to recover and keep going. We are extremely excited about this project, for this documentary will be submitted to the Sundance Film Festival in January 2004 (note the date), and hopefully, we'll move on to the movie afterwards. I don't have any idea on video release dates, or televised dates--but it'll happen some day. We have about 4-6 more months of shooting scenes on location in Taney Co. (if possible, other locations if necessary), and then Damon begins editing. I cannot emphasize our volunteers enough. They've done so wonderfully well, and no matter what we ask, they come through for us. We are lucky. As for you all, I've not forgotten you. It seems some folks are jumping in and answering questions, and that's very good. I have had to put my own genealogy and family research on hold for a while, and so I appreciate y'all "carrying on". Everyone have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Vonda ListMom for MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/