As a student of my maternal grandmother, the family historian before anyone considered themselves such, I have listened to oral history of my ancestors for many generations.

Oral history about the lives of those who settled in the mountains of Virginia in the late 1700's, a place I still hold very dear to my heart. Oral history about my ancestors who fought in the War Between the States, losing children as babies or as young adults with "TB" and surviving during the Great Depression.

Oral history that as child left me wanting to know the little ones who were in heaven before they knew how good a warm tomato, fresh from the garden, on 'light bread' with mayonaise tasted as we kids had dinner at the picnic table with iced tea.

As a student of my maternal grandmother, the family historian before anyone considered themselves such, I have listened to oral history of my ancestors for many generations.

Oral history about the lives of those who settled in the mountains of Virginia in the late 1700's, a place I still hold very dear to my heart. Oral history about my ancestors who fought in the War Between the States, losing children as babies or as young adults with "TB" and surviving during the Great Depression.

Oral history that as child left me wanting to know the little ones who were in heaven before they knew how good a warm tomato, fresh from the garden, on 'light bread' with mayonaise tasted as we kids had dinner at the picnic table with iced tea.