Thank You for your kind compliment. However, I am aware of my shortcommings in writting a book. And that I have one fatal flaw and that is I DON'T know when to STOP. You may have noticed that is some of my postings on this board. Whenever I go to write something about a subject, which I have an interest in like White Sulphur Springs, I am always revising it and updating the materials presented.

In the case of White Sulphur Springs, I am aware of all the little things that are incomplete and are hinted at in this research, that I suspect and haven't yet found out. So my problem is, that I would not be an objective writer. I am too close to the information and before I wrote even the first book, I would be working on the revisison. I am also convienced that with my writing style the history would be at least a 3 volume encyclopedia. Bill Shea, for example, is an excellant writter because he knows when to NOT put in too much information that will bog down the story telling. I on the other hand would try to put in everything I knew.

So I do not feel I would be a good writer, even with my knowledge of the subject, because of this obsessiveness and lack of objectivity.

But Thanks again for your compliment.