Please Delete/Scroll, if not interested: A newly formed High Prairie Genealogical Society has been in the winds of peoples minds down Lyle, WA. parts. It's located at Hartland, WA. Well, where is Hartland, let alone "High Prairie"? High Prairie/Hartland is 12 mi. N into the interior from Lyle, WA ( loc. on the Columbia River), across and down river from The Dalles. Hartland found on old maps, High Prairie, not to my knowledge -the Community of farmers called it that, very fondly! Beautiful view of distant mountains S from up there ! Watch for rattle snakes, cats ! Wild! Nada (Clark) McMurren, ret'd Teacher at Lyle, and her many friends have worked diligently to initiate this new gen. soc. to accumulate the many memories, memorabilia, and gen. of this obscure loc. in Klickitate Co. Nada was discovered by me when, in 1983, I wrote to the Post Master, Lyle, WA. inquiring about anyone who would know Hartland, WA as it had a U.S. Post Office turn of the century. It was Nada that answered me as she was Secy. to the Lone Pine Cemetary (yes, that is the way it's spelled over entrance to it) at Hartland, but to the natives, fondly, "High Prairie" and still is. Nada,an ancestral Cousin it turn out, was the one who handed me my Clark Line genealogy back to 1637 CT! The rest is "History!" bitten completely and irretrievably by the gen. bug! Now is my chance to "repay" her and the High Prairie Gen. Soc. by sending them a VHS copy of my 8mm. Hi 8 creation of gen. on video. This was the 2 hr. video that I made about a yr ago and mentioned on PSR a few mos. back. Chock full of gen.! As I type, the 2 hr tape is being fed to the VHS in recording mode, set for the full 2 hr. capacity of the VHS tape - supposedly the higher the speed, the better the copy. However, I have compared Extra Long Play and the highest speed and discern little difference using various quality tapes. Text is one of the critical items when video taping - especially after being copied - copying tends to deteriorate in quality of image, unless digital enhancement is used - that is expensive. The close-ups of pix, fan type gen chart, diaries galore, autograph albums, memorabilia can show legibly. If I found some priting or writing that just didn't photograph that well, I got close ups, and read them aloud as I was video taping to act as a crutch. In doing this video & contributing it to this newly formed society, I have been able to furnish them with a lot of genealogy items in a two hour package. There are the rare large sized pix of the rustic cabin school at High Prairie, with fortunately the names of nearly all of the students of various ages, and names of their teachers both on the front and the back. Someone was thinking ahead! My source, blood relatives, lived in Everett, WA. are long gone to Texas, but thank God they allowed me to do something that I had always wanted to do on my own, and that is make a documentary with some value to it, and I think this tends to fulfill that desire - something useful to someone sometime. Time? Turn of the Century, later 1800s thru early 1900s, but of course these people branched out over the generations, many still strung along the Columbia R., down into OR, up through Puget Sound Country and the Pac. NW. From my Photo notes, are surnames:Hiatt, Putman (man)James J., judge & Fam of Centerville, and High Prairie; Baker, Ryman, Tate(friends not related), French (same), Clark, of course, et al. Danish Sorensen surname, Cooksley, farther down the track. I see that I am running out of ink, so I must stop ! My cursor is about to be cursed. Carroll. X ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]