This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BFC.2ACE/301.2.2.1 Message Board Post: Thanks so much Greg-What a wonderful synopsis of the history of Pepin and Lake Pepin. Did you know that the author "Laura Ingalls Wilder" lived near Pepin County, and her first book, "Little House in the Big Woods "was based on the house in that area which she lived? Too bad we didn't know the first names of those Pepin brothers though-Glo