My Grandparents, James and Callie Simmons lived at 615 College Street, a large white house on the hill above College Street. (The house has a green siding on it, now.) My spinster aunt, Opal Simmons, lived with them and worked at Altamont Hospital and often walked from their home to the hospital. I remember her speaking of Dr. Showwalter. My grandfather actually farmed the land behind and adjacent to their home. He had a large barn, horses and milk cows. Amazing in retrospect that he had a farm within walking distance of the hospital. In fact, it was within walking distance of the Christiansburg retail center, including the Palace theater on Main Street. Anyone remember the Camp Comfort Cafe at the Intersection of College Street and US 11, across College Street from the Altamont Hospital? I'm thinking '40's and '50's, now, maybe '60's, too. Oarse (sp?) Simmons lived adjacent to them and kept the nastiest looking barn yard with all kinds of fowl and animals in it. But, it was always interesting to stand at the fence and look at the creatures in his barnyard—for a city boy from Portsmouth, Va., —anyway. The Nixons, a prominent Christiansburg family, lived down the hill, across College Street from my grandparents. Reminiscing is fun, and it's sort of genealogical, isn't it? Jerry Lester