Linda--I'm gonna jump in here. Isn't hindsight wonderful? My father was also a wonderful story teller. And like you, I wish I would have recorded all he would tell. I do have one tape of a Christmas dinner, he and my mother attended. They did not know it was being taped. It is mostly my mother telling my daughter all about working in the tobacco fields and taking the baby out in the fields with her. My mother never talked much, I was surprised at her. I had never heard about the tobacco field before. Dad would talk about sharecropping and a Mr. Lewis that he worked for, about the dam, the sawmill, the flour mill, walking ten miles to work and then coming home and taking care of the stock, etc. What a hard hard life they had. We are so soft! Didn't mean to get carried away. Helen