Dear Group, Back in late May I started to take down scribbled notes as I watched the videotape that Danny Schisler of Youngstown made as he interviewed Cora Gushee, our Town of Porter Historian. Cora was/is 97 years old and she continues to be a gold mine of historical information. I typed up my notes and I posted them to the group at that time. Well, it was also around that time that I had serious concerns about a lump that I had discovered and because of subsequent events that led to radical surgery, the videotape has been gathering dust ever since then. Tonight, I wasn't in all that great of a mood--I'm still recuperating--but when the phone rang and it was Danny on the line, he got me all excited again about the interviews he continues to videotape of old local people who really have great personal memories to share about our local history. And as a result, I dug up the tape of his interview with Cora, popped it into my VCR and took scribbly notes about what they talked about after the last time I had viewed it. As I mentioned in one of my earlier postings on the subject, I was prompted to insert a few first names and add a bit of facts of history that wasn't precisely mentioned in the interview. It's all in the name of local history. I'll follow this message with the next segment in the original series--Oral History, Pt. 5. Hopefully, I'll be able to keep up this level of mental excitement to follow it with Pt. 6. vee