In a message dated 8/11/2004 6:19:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, carwom@ntws.net writes: > Group, > There was a young lady who called the Museum day before yesterday > concerning the Mitchum Family. While we were talking the phone when dead because we > had an electrician working and he turned the breaker off that the phone was > plugged into. I want to apologize and do hope she does not think I hung up on > her. I had not got to write her name or information down. I believe it was > concerning some unidentified photos. However, she did say that she and Alta > Mitchum had been corresponding but had not made a connection. > Again if she is watching this site I do hope she will accept my apologize > and contact us again. > If you haven't been by the museum lately you will be surprised at the > changes and improvements I hope. We have a contractor now working on the rock > work on the outside, repointing and completely rebuilding a Gable that had > starting to lean some. The restroom inside are almost completed, enlarging them. > We now have a small kitchen area in our office. Painting and hope to soon > be back to normal in the Archives after having to move things to paint and > reconstruct the conference room. We have two gentlemen who have volunteered a > lot of time working at the Museum and without their help we would not be as > far along as we have come. > Most of all we would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who has > donated money and used our Archives, bought our books and the encouragement to > continue work. Without your support we would not be to this point. There is > still a lot of work to be done; > Again Thank You. > Thank You > Carla Womack, President > Wise County Historical Society, Inc. > P.O. Box 427 > Decatur, Texas 76234 > wisemuseum@ntws.net > > P.S. If at anytime you do not get a response at the museum address please > email my home address and I will get it to the Museum. > carwom@ntws.net > Good morning, Carla! My name is Alta Mitchem Durden and I believe the lady > you spoke with was Debra LaMel, addressed above. I will send her a copy of > this just in case I am correct that it was she who was speaking with you about > the unidentified photo. We have a photograph that has ten young men of Wise > County included in it (who were part of a circle of friends informally > called, "The Dirty Dozen"). We can identify five of the ten men pictured, four of > whom were Wise County Mitchums and the fifth a kinsman named Musgrove. > Debra has superimposed the names of these five known men onto the photograph so > that it will be easy for viewers to distinguish between those known and those > unknown. Thank you for your wonderful work in Wise County! I have found it > unparalleled. Alta >