Dear Cousins: I am trying to gather articles for our newsletter. I do not believe I can get one out before the first of Oct. as I am having company most of the month of Sept but I have been able to get a couple of cousins to commit to sending in articles and have one already. I have written a couple myself. But do not let this newsletter be all about me. I want all of you to write a couple of paragraphs about your life. Where you were born, parents, spouse, children etc. I will put one or two depending on the space in each newsletter. This is to reacquaint ourselves with one another and to introduce each member to our new and prospective members. So get started on it for when I call upon you, you will have it all done. Will only ask for one per family. I am going to send a copy of the newsletter to all Genealogy, and History Societies in the Middle, TN area and others that the members think are important. Let us have a discussion of this. Does anyone have suggestions on who and or what should have a copy of each issue. Those of you in TN would know more about that than I do. Now I know that many of you have good old southern recipes and helpful hints, send them in. I need volunteers to write an articles about the following, 1. Mrs. BoBo Boarding House and our lunch there. 2. The town of Lynchburg, if anyone visited the court house or any of it's historical buildings that would make a good article. 3. Old family stories, like the ones some of us posted a couple years ago about our childhood Christmas. Or did your family do something special for birthdays. This issue will come out in the fall. Do you have any special outings, remembrances of those shorting, crisp days. What about Thanksgiving? 4. How about that favorite relative or not so favorite. Do we have some real eccentric or murderers in our family tree that are so far in the past that we do not mind sharing the stories? I have two murderers in my family and one of them is the progenitor of all of the Kentucky Brantley family (my mothers side). These stories do not have to be just about Chestnut Ridge. Have you taken some wonderful trips. They could be across the globe or around the corner. 5. Tell us about your children, what are they doing in school. The awards, hobbies and challenges. 6. Queries, this is going out to others that are not on line or have a computer. Someone out there may have the answer. This newsletter is about we cousins, not only our ancestors but our life in the past, now and in the future. Our interest, family, life, or any of those above. If I do not hear from you, you can be sure that in the future you will hear from me personally. So get those thinking hats on. Julia