Christmas can be an exciting time. The land opens up out there, charged with magic. El Capitan comes into view, and its truly something to experience. While there isn't much to see at Guadalupe Mountains National Park if you stay in your car, it's nice to get out and tramp around for a few hours. And, if fishing is your thing, several area lakes are stocking up.
Word is that catfish in Possum Kingdom are responding great to cut bait and frozen shrimp.
Greg Harman is an Enterprise writer whose column appears each Wednesday. And the Mormon church offers public access to their voluminous computer records through one of their 2,000 family history centers worldwide - and at many other libraries. The records are on CD, and may be accessed with software supplied by the church. It is not available by modem, nor is that in the plans. It details how to access the Ancestral File, the International Genealogical Index and the U.S. Social Security Death Index.