This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FRONK, SULOUFF Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AcB.2ACE/1556.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Marcia, Thanks for the additional insight on silkwork in Penna. I had heard that efforts to grow mulberry trees to feed silkworms had been attempted, but I had the impression that nothing much came of that effort. My dad's line of work while still a teenager was in silkmills in Northumberland Co. Pa. As he often described it, silk weaving was low paying, long hours, and quite tiring. In the late '20s he left silk weaving and went into exterior painting, and then into interior painting and decorating to get through the depression. Best wishes, Nels