Bottom Side Up is a bold and unflinching, warm and witty original account of a Chamber of Commerce Chief living and working in one of the "ground zeros" of the Great Recession. In her authentic informal conversational style, Linda tells the story of how she, her family and the community lost their way during the economic meltdown. Bottom Side Up is a story about hand-holding; Holding her mothers hand as she dies; Holding the hands of the business community as they close their doors; Holding the hand of her husband as he loses his job; holding the hands of her employees as they are forced to...

Elder John White, Roderick White and Andrew C. White are among my many ancestors. Some time ago, I received a badly copied issue of our family "Memorials" book and seeing the aging of our family I chose to reprint it in legible form. I have also incorporated within the main text, the updates by A.C. White through about 1903 that were available in our copy. Having struggled locating the names in the Ancestry sections, I created Index III & IV which list these names.