To me, the most noticeable thing in the stories that have been posted is that so many of them come from people whose parents grew up in Sumner County but left during the 1930s and 1940s to find employment in Detroit and other northern cities. The Okies' trek to California was made famous in "The Grapes of Wrath," but the migration from Sumner Co. and other southern areas has gone pretty much unnoticed except by the music industry. My family stayed put, but news of the relatives "up north" was the main topic of conversation at every gathering. These are not just funny little stories or strolls down Memory Lane. This is the stuff of history, and I'm willing to bet that future historians will be happy to have our genealogies and these archived mailing lists for source material. Joyce