Hey, howdy! I know, I've been gone for too long, and I'm not doing anything worth doing genealogy-wise, but thought I'd better write y'all to let you know I'm still kickin'...the weather is the weirdest thing this year--we got 14" of snow 23/24 Dec, it melted by th 29th due to day temps in the fifties, then another snow threat on 1 Jan (which didn't materialize). Today, we set a record high for the day, from what I understand...the temp was 69 at one point this afternoon. Seems every 2 weeks, it's spring-like, then the weeks in between, Mother Nature wants to remind us it IS January in the Ozarks. Hope everyone had a great holiday season! Ours was good, got to see everyone (except my sister) over the break, and even had a nice cast party at the Old Taney county Jail on New Year's Eve. Now...I'm doing genealogy again, but at this time I'm concentrating on the Bald Knobbers and the Anti-Bald Knobbers. I'm seeking pictures of all the men, stories on the families, that sort of thing...and I'm not strictly concentrating on the Taney county men. Brian Shay found a copy of Harvey Castleman's booklet on the BK and ABK, and I transcribed it over the past few days. If you'd like, I can send it to the lists, but it's 20 pages in text, so I'd have to break it down over a lot of emails. Mr. Castleman published this booklet in 1944, and much of his work appears in the Hartman/Ingenthron book, "Bald Knobbers: Vigilantes on the Ozarks' Frontier". He appears to be anti-Bald Knobber in the beginning, but pro-BK towards the end. If you have any information on these folks, please post TO THE LISTS so we can all learn more about these people who played a prominent part in Ozarks' history. Oh, yeah, and I'm looking for someone to take over the WRV website, if anyone would care to. After 3 years of building and re-building websites, I've figured out--I really don't like doing it. (Mom has always said I'm a late bloomer; apparently I'm slow to figure stuff out, too!) Contact me if this is something you'd like to attempt--right now, it's just maintaining, and updating cemetery lists and events of the Society. Everyone have a great week...and I'll try to pay more attention to my email (has anyone else gotten hundreds of thousands of junk emails lately?); my inbox is still horrendously full, but I'm slowly getting it broken down...I think. Vonda ListMom for MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/