Please visit our sister websites: http://www.mtgs.org <http://www.mtgs.org/> and http://www.rootsweb.com/~tntgs for our newsletter about our May meeting and other interesting information. This month we are sending our meeting notice to you in the form of our usual email and an attached newsletter. In the newsletter you will find information in addition to our meeting notice. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read the newsletter. Most computers come prepackaged with the Adobe Reader. If you don't have the Reader, you may visit <http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html to download. The newsletter is also posted on our websites: <http://www.mtgs.org/> http://www.mtgs.org and <http://www.rootsweb.com/~tntgs> http://www.rootsweb.com/~tntgs Our regular May meeting will be held at 2 p.m. (please notice time change) at the Edmondson Pike Branch of the Nashville Public Library. Join Maury County Historian Bob Duncan as his band of frontier Tennessee farmboys-turned-sailor-and-navigator float their "flatboats" on winter flood waters swiftly by river pirates to Natchez, and trade their surplus farm produce for hard cash. After a brief respite at that "Gomorrah on the Mississippi," Natchez-under-the-hill, trudge homeward with them over the dark, lonely and often deadly Natchez Trace. Based on his research and popularly acclaimed columns in the Columbia Daily Herald, Duncan unfolds this adventure in early commercial traffic, establishment of a pioneer market, and access to hard currency, all so crucial to the early growth and maturity of Tennessee communities. We look forward to seeing you. Katheryne Cowan, MTGS Webmaster