Subject: Re: Kelsey book
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 18:11:43 -0600
From: "Kim Austin" <kim@powerplex.com>
To: <gilmer@ballistic.com>

Hello!
Your trip sounds wonderful.  I hope you will write more about it and print
in the paper.

I did come to Gilmer on Sat. night.  I meant to drop the book off with Mary
on Monday morning before I left to come home but I completely forgot it.  I
had it right there on the front seat so I wouldn't forget but I still did
not remember!  I think I'll just drop it in the mail to you tomorrow.  I
have the address for the paper so I'll send it to your atttention at the
Mirror office.

If my memory serves me correctly,  Julie (Hall) Goughnour coordinated the
book project.   Descendants of the early Mormon families in Upshur County
were invited to submit family histories and stories for the book.  It also
has stories and photos of the early communities of Kelsey and Enoch.  Its
just a soft cover, spiral bound publication. Since I had a copy of it, I had
volunteered to be listed on the Upshur Co. TX Genweb page as a source for
"lookups" out of the book.

I am excited about the China opportunity , but a little nervous and scared
too.   My arms feel like pincushions today.  I had 6 injections yesterday
and have many more to go.  If you are going to be in China longer than 6
months, the number of immunizations, etc. increases dramatically.   Although
I know I will be teaching English at a university there, I won't know my
specific assignment until April or May.

I'll get the book in the mail tomorrow.
Kim

-----Original Message-----
From: Sarah Greene <gilmer@ballistic.com>
To: Kim Austin <kim@powerplex.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Kelsey book

>Kim, that's exciting news about your going to China. I thoroughly
>enjoyed my two trips there in 1991 and I know it has changed
>considerably since then, in terms of westernizing. Mary met me at
>Nacogdoches last night on my return from a trip led by Jere and Sarah
>Ragland Jackson to Prague, Budapest and Vienna, ending up in Amsterdam.
>60 people! They had help from their two daughters and son-in-law and it
>all went very smoothly. There were four M. D.'s. two lawyers and
>numerous PhD history profs along, so we had most bases covered. I asked
>Mary if she had heard from you about the book and she hadn't yet, but
>expressed great interest. Jere is head of the Center for East Texas
>Studies at SFASU and during the trip told me he thought one of the
>things research needed to be done on here was the Kelsey community. I
>was pleased to tell him about your book.
>