Ref. THE HERALD - Everett, WA. Date:Mon. June 4, 2001 Section: Local Page(s): PP 1B, 2B Author: Eric Stevick, Herald Writer Site: http://www.heraldnet.com/search/ Article:'I remember when...' Olivia Park Elementary (Everett School Distr.) students are turning senior citizens' life stories into effective learning lessons for both the seniors and the kids. COMMENTARY: This article has human interest appeal and suggests how the interrelationship of the distance in time of the generations-gap between seniors and the young can result in great therapy for both. This is a story, well told, of how seniors/youngsters can relate life experiences to one another that becomes great therapy for both age differences. Read to see what I mean. - - - I have been scowering The Herald, and other similar sources, for really good writings that relate to genealogy/history/local interest, and I must say that I have been rather disappointed in what I find. For awhile there were a lot of stories that I could choose from but lately I found practically none. I like to find articles about our Indian (Native Amer.) population that do not tend to be controversial but rather informative; or historical articles; or ones that relate more directly to genealogy that have surnames that relate to our region of WA and WA State History, or our Neighbors that relate to us in some way. Historical societies, and their activities usually are of interest to genealogists. So, I will continue to seek and try to find that which I feel is of interest to others and that they would like to know about via information about the source. - - - Just when I least expect it, all of a sudden I have received at least 3 surprising e-mails from persons related to me but of whom I have had no knowledge - all with most valuable genealogy information that I had been seeking since 1983 when I got "bitten" by the gen-bug. My elusive Smiths of King Co.- Kent area, et al have come to me out of the blue because they saw my info - thanks to a rootsweb site that I was unaware of. Some good samaritan must have passed it on. Then, out of CO, another elusive bit of gen. appears in my e-mail of a maternal side of my Clark ancestry, the elusive Pope Line which I have pursued & finally had given up learning about that Family - all of a sudden I am getting all sorts of valuable info on them. Just when I began to sour on new info, the info comes to me 'out of the blue' and my adrenalin is full bore again. The adage that 'They Want to Be Found' that I expounded on with a lot of Input from others suddenly erupts again and renews my Faith in humanity, thanks to the rootsweb.com system that so many of us enjoy. That has been perhaps the main source of the "ties" and "hits" that have taken place. I tend to think of it a pure luck, but maybe there is something working for us that we don't quite understand. I wish all of you the same "luck" or whatever it is we want to call it. Playing those "clues" certainly does pay off; if not immediately, in Time ! I hope now that this kind of Luck will happen in my Scott Line - my sparse information on that Line needs a miracle to happen to come about. The Atkinsons who married into the Scott Line has produced surprising results over the years, as far as the Atkinson side is concerned. Perhaps Tacoma where my Scotts lived circa 1917 has the key. A 12 day visit to Italy this last month convinced me that we have a lot to be thankful for, and which we take for granted when it comes to what we might think of as common conveniences. Italy reminded me of the hills of the part of WA/OR along the Columbia River in the area outside of Rome. Beautiful country, cities, highway systems, and great driving compared to our I-5 motor-cross stupidity! We were all over Italy & I did NOT see the crazy driving we see in the I-5 and Seattle, et al, areas -Believe It or Not ! But, this ain't genealogy, is it. So, I will squelch ! The "newcomers" still think that the Snohomish Library is haunted by Catherine McMurchy, longtime Librarian, but they publish her sister Anna's picture but label it Catherine. The Oxford Tavern is supposed to be haunted & is claimed to be one of the most haunted places in WA.- even claimed to be so by Seattle Times, KOMO4's Northwest Afternoon, KING5's Evening Magazine and respected spiritualist Derienne Woogerd, according to the pamphlet avaiable at the Oxford Building aka Oxford Saloon. If you get this pamphlet, you can read about the various "ghosts", i.e. "Madame Kathleen", "John", "Simon" "Mary" "Amelia" and the List goes on and on. Funny how I lived in Snohomish most of the time since 1924, and my Folks owned the barber shop right next to the Oxford, until the barber shop burned to the ground, and I never heard of the ghosts of Oxford, nor the Library only 2.5 blocks away. Where do these new-comers come up with all this stuff, and foist it off on the Public as the Truth. If there is a place that should be haunted, it should be Snohomish Cemetery - not the G.A.R., but Snohomish Cemetery,aka Indian Cem., aka Indian/Pioneer Cem located at 2nd & Cypress (NOT at 2nd St and Pine as reporters tend to mis-print it!). Averill Field still has no Plaque in Honor of Earl Averill, National Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y., and it may lose its Name, Averill Field if the Newcomers keep on as they are of distorting/altering Snohomish History to THEIR version of it. Truth, doesn't matter where it is not understood or recognized. Truth vs Fiction when it comes to Genealogy, Historical writings. Is is what we WANT to Believe or it it the Truth! Amen, Carroll in Snohomish, The Digressor ! I Wander;I Wonder ! * * * 30 * * * ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.