Thank you all so much for the nice complimentary notes about my memoir of growing up in Lockport. I'm humbled really. I have adored Vee's notes and others' recollections too. They all help to form "the big picture" and isn't that what it's all about? We who share are adding to the collective memory of an era or two to form a whole. Vee, those who read only Peyton Place and skipped D.H. Lawrence were missing something. I did a book report my senior year on Lawrence's book and Mrs. Ives, my teacher, was quite taken aback. She very carefully told me that if she had known I wanted to read Lawrence she might have been able to steer me toward another book which would have been more, ahem, appropriate. I was on my way to being unshockable in those days. Yet, like one of the others wrote, there is much I find shocking in today's society. Somehow in between then and now there was a gap in the culture which I missed out on by staying home and raising my son. He's been trying to help me give up my "Fifties mentality" but I'll cling to that until the grave. He found out that the way I taught him wasn't quite what he was running into out there. I didn't get it. I do think it's important though to let children of today know what we had once. Otherwise they'll never have a clue. But like me they probably still won't get it. Interestingly, perhaps one of the emailers is a distant cousin. I'm still waiting to hear back from her. I love finding "shirt tail" cousins! :) Barb Petty