Hello Everyone, I've been scanning old photos into my computer for many months now, mostly photos of my own family photos, dating from the early years of the 20th century to "yesterday," and showing my wife's and my parents, our siblings and their families (well, her siblings - I have none), our close cousins and their families, our own children and grandson, our parents, grandparents, etc. Today I reached some photos I took at Mint Water Brook Farm in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1998 at the Sisson Gathering. I'll be sending all these electronic photos to Carol soon. In the meantime you might be interested in two of these photos which came from my attempt to take pictures of non-pictorial subjects - not very successful pictures, to say the least. One of them shows an architectural rendering of Mintwater Brook Farm house which didn't scan well at all, and printed out even worse, but which the human eye can make good sense of and the human tongue can tell better than the photo can. It shows a 1996 assignment for Roger Williams University by student Janine DaSilva. Roland Morgan, owner since that year of the house, had posted it on a wall in the house and many of us saw it as we trooped through the house during the Sisson Gathering in 1998. It shows the house with north toward the right - that is, it shows the house with the side toward the road at the bottom of the drawing. The rooms from left to right along that side are the entryway, the parlor, and the northeast bedroom. Along the far side of the house are the kitchen, the (modern) bathroom, and the northwest bedroom. In the center of the house is the chimney stack, and there are hearths in three of the rooms - the kitchen, the parlor, and the northwest bedroom. You may remember that Roland Morgan is an antique dealer and that he has been refurbishing the house for several years now. When we saw it in 1998 he had removed the wall separating the two bedrooms, making a fair-sized room - not large, but with sufficient space for - say - two beds. There is also a second floor. Pictures of the second floor rooms (among many Mintwater photos) may be seen at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dasisson/mintwater.htm The second photo - which I tried unsuccessfully to scan today - shows a paper that Roland had taped to the outside of the house. It shows a picture of the house as it looked in 1998, or possibly 1996 when he bought the house, and beneath this posted picture are these words - "The Old Sisson House "Mint Water Brook Farm, owned by George Sisson, first son of Richard Sisson, probably built during the 1730's using parts of an earlier 17th century home of Richard Sisson, original settler. "There is evidence that its present form [with the two bedrooms separated by a wall] dates circa 1730, with indications that pieces of an earlier house were used in the present structure. Research on this house continues. "The Mint Water Brook Farm House, 1236 East Main Road, Portsmouth, Rhode Island is currently owned by Roland A. Morgan, an antique dealer." Yours, David Arne Sisson