Small world....

This afternoon I got a phone call from my neice Amy, up in Washington State and she told me a very strange story. She said she had been to a place like the Moose Lodge up there, and there was a guy there who mentioned something about being from the Pullman area, etc. Amy told him that her Dad was born in Wawawai, down on the Snake River and this guy told her there was never a place like that on the Snake River. And she told him that, yes, there was, because her Dad and a couple of her aunts were born in Wawawai!!! Pretty soon this guy comes in with an older looking guy and so Amy told the older guy what the younger one had said and he said, "there sure was! I picked peaches there and in fact, I went to school there in a little old schoolhouse!" So Amy ran home and got a book that a cousin of mine, who was also born in Wawawai, had written about Wawawai after they put in the Lower Granite Dam on the river! This guy was thumbing through the book and says, "There's the old schoolhouse" and he was looking through the book and told her that that was where he had picked fruit years ago!!! Amy got his name on a piece of paper and his E-Mail address which was theoldfart@Yahoo. She told him that I was on line too and that she had just been to a birthday party for me in February, etc., etc.... So she asked if it was all right to give him my E-Mail address and I told her it was okay. So she said that if I get mail from this guy not to throw it out or delete it. I might really know him! His name was Claude (something or other) and she is going to send me the name and address that she wrote down on a piece of paper! I don't remember any Claude, but she said he seemed to have recognized my cousin Cecil in the picture in the book. His father, this guy's could have worked for the Comapny Ranch at the time he lived there. I think it was owned by somebody called "White". The White fruit company was what kind of rings a bell in my "memory bank"! We didn't know all the people who worked there but a couple of the families married into our families! My cousin Loretta, for instance married a guy named Bill Bacon and his brother and family worked for the company ranch!! Who knows? It would be kind of interesting to know if he really knows anybody like he told her he did! She doesn't know, at her age. any of them and she doesn't know if he Dad, (Uncle Bob), would remember either anymore. She just thought it was really odd that this guy seemed to know about Wawawai!!!! I'll keep you all posted as to what I find out if anything!!