ROLL CALL TO ALL MEMBERS !!!!

[archeobabe]

To let you on the forum who is Archeobabe.  I am the oldest sister of Janet Harrington.  My name is Jimmie Ann.  Archeobabe was used by a group of four women when we were doing a dig at the Kaw Lake on the Kansas side.  Archeobabe came into being when we were driving a Chevy Sub that was called "The Paleorhino".  It was rough on inside as well on the outside.  It was a stick and hard to drive.  I think I am the only one left who used "Archeobabe".  I believe the "Paleorhino" has been retired several years ago.  I have been interested in Kansas history especially in Elk and Greenwood.  I will be going around Howard, Elk county and Greenwood county taking photos when it warm up little abit more.  With some of the photos I will be putting on canvas.  There is so much beauty in these hills especially if you get up before sunrise and go to the Cresco cemetry.  When the sun barely tops the horizon, looking west, you can see if wind farm as clear as if you can drive straight to them.

[sixdogsmom]

How interesting! I'd like to try that, but I stay up so late at night, I don't get up very early in the morning. It's really neat what you can see in mother nature. I love to see the sun set in the fall, looking across the range between Moline and Sedan. Just breathtaking! And don't worry, we won't hold it against you that you are related to Janet.  How fortunate she is to have a big sister, I lost mine in a car wreck some years ago, I sure miss her. Tell us more about the 'digs' at Kaw?

[Diane Amberg]

There used to be some good fossils along Clear Creek, out toward my family's old place. The stream cuts used to be full of them.  Up north at my mom's place, the stream that cut through their pasture behind their house was a good place to find sea lily stems. I never found a whole one though. I'd love to go with you on a dig. I'll bring the dental picks. (Al's father was a dentist.)

[Rudy Taylor]

You're a courageous woman, Archeobabe, putting it on the forum that you're TaTa's
sister. Actually, we all love to tease Janet who is one of the nicest people I've ever
known. And I agree with Sixdogsmom with her touching comment. Anybody who
has a brother or sister is mighty lucky.

(Do you actually invite TaTa to your house and everything?  I've heard she isn't
house-broke).

[Teresa]

**Yikes**

Teresa
(((Who is running for cover)))

[archeobabe]

Rudy,

No comment.  TaTa would probably beat me up if I answer.

(my sister could beat me up if I did but I doubt it.)

[Janet Harrington]

Since I haven't been able to get on the forum very much, you all have taken quite the liberty of abusing me.  However; I have big shoulders and a big behind.  I learned a long time ago that whatever doesn't kill us makes us better people.  LOL

[Rudy Taylor]

Gotta write down that saying, TaTa.  Sounds like something my mother would have said.

Her oft-heard quote was: "Whatcha can't cure, you gotta endure."

That has pulled me through everything from a case of the measles when I was 10 to going totally broke when I was 40.

And you're right ... neither one killed me, and I'm a better man because of those experiences.

[Janet Harrington]

Well, Rudy my dear friend.  I had never heard that saying, "What'cha can't cure, you gotta endure."  I like that one.  I think I'll use it.  Thanks for sharing a part of your mother.

[jpbill]

Guess I'll chime in on this thing.  I'm Bill Hawkins, grew up in Moline.  My parent's are Virgil & Helen Hawkins, sadly, both gone now.  Dad came from old Elk Co. roots, his ancestors, the Garrett's, Hawkins', Turner's, and Frawner's came to Elk Co. in the 1870's and 80's.  Mom's family moved to the Antioch community (NE of Howard) in 1921 from Nebraska.  That community was home to many members of my family.  We lived NW of Howard when I was born but moved to Moline a year later in 1943.  Dad never lived more than about 15 miles from his birthplace in his 91 years.  Growing up in Moline in the 1950's was great. Believe it or not, Moline was quite a booming town in those days.  Quite sad to see it today. Going to school in Moline was great (yea, Hornets).  We loved to hate the Pirates from you know where.  After high school, I went off to Wichita to seek fame and fortune.  Neither came my way but after a disasterous first marriage, I was fortunate enough, at the promptings of my sainted mother, to marry a Moline girl, Janet Harper, who I had gone to school with for 12 years.  She by this time was a young widow with 2 children and I was a divorcee with 2 children, so we had 4 children at our wedding and eventually had 2 more between us for a total of 6.  We first lived in Wichita, then Topeka for 14 years, then an AT&T transfer sent us to New York where we lived on Long Island and I commuted to Brooklyn for 2 years.  That's long enough for any human to have to live in that hell-hole.  Trust me, it's a nice place to visit but you don't want to live there.  Luckily, I was able to find a job in KC with SW Bell Tel.  Sadly, Janet died after a valiant struggle with cancer.  Not a day goes by that I don't think about the wonderful life we had together.  Though she has been gone for nearly 20 years, her influence in the my life and the lives of our children is very apparent.  We now have 10 grandchildren and 1 great-grandson.  Now that both my parents are gone, I don't get down to Elk Co. very often but I still know, after all these years of being elsewhere, my roots are still there.

Now retired, I live here in Overland Park, serve as a church service missionary, and do some genealogy from time to time.