The new site is up and accessible to the two of us working on it. Available from a different provider, I thought it might be the answer to some of the limitations of Blogger. Audio and video files can be added to it, along with pictures in albums with slideshows, so the viewer doesn't have to scroll page after page looking for a particular photo. There are a couple of features I want to figure out before going public. Maybe in a couple of days...

What I'm hoping to get with the new site is broader participation from the relatively small number who will be interested in it and have something to contribute. There are a number of writers, photographers, collectors of old photos, etc., who can send material, and with the reunion coming up on July 28, maybe we can compile short bios of those attending and add them. It will be a good time for people to bring old pictures to be posted. The neat thing about posting old pictures online is that they become available to others very easily. I'm hoping the new site is even more user friendly.

The pictures being posted lately on George's site have created a good bit of interest and brought people together who lost contact years ago. Who knows what treasure is hidden in those old shoeboxes? He's got pictures of people who are now deceased and they were younger than either of us. This one, in particular, got to me. If a library is burned up with every person's demise, isn't there something we can do to preserve some of it? I'm hoping we can include memorials for them with pictures and favorite memories from different people.

By now, I'm sure you've figured out the focus of the new site is Plantersville and my partner is George. If you would like to join this effort, contact him or me for the link. My e-mail address is magarr@bellsouth.net .

His is gkelly100@comcast.net .

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Oh! And mark your calendars for July 28th, time and place to be announced soon. If you would like to help organize the reunion of P'villians and former P'villians, and you live close enough to do some legwork, e-mail Gloria Holland, shollands@comcast.net , or George.