My mother was born in 1914 in the McKown's Mtn area of Cherokee County. Papa Sanders was a cotton farmer and Grandmother made a little money selling eggs and sewing but Mama said she never "knew" she was poor because they always had clothes and food. She told me how Christmas wasn't so much presents but rather the meals and the smells of the kitchen. (For some reason that old farmhouse always smelled better than any place I've ever been in my life: herbs and seasonings and burning kindling in the woodburning stove.) For Christmas Mama said she would get an apple and nuts and sometimes a precious orange. Maybe a homemade doll. But to the end of her life she would pick up an orange and smell, smile and say "mmm smells like Christmas!" "Things" didn't make Christmas but family did. Hope we hurry and get back to that. Wouldn't it be great! Funny...now I live in an orange grove in Florida. Think of Christmas all year! Merry Christmas memories to you all. Don't give up. Enjoy the journey. WHITE SANDERS DORMAN LATHAM DESTAFFINO DAVIS RAY LONG WILSON RAMSEY Visit my site ...Shaking My Family Tree http://members.aol.com/CampCP/index1.html Priscilla White Perry SCSand99@aol.com