Have you browsed through census documents, vital records, or city directories and wondered exactly what your relatives' hometown looked like? Where did your loved ones live, work, and play? For today's "Those Places" topic, I chose a very broad one...Houston County, Alabama. The majority (possibly all? will have to check) of my father's family lived in this area of Southeastern Alabama at some point. I have visited before, but only a few times...and on at least one of those trips I spent an hour or so walking, bent over at the waist, scouring a freshly plowed field for Native American artifacts. During high school, I participated in a summer archaeology program through Fernbank Natural History Museum in Atlanta...working alongside their resident anthropologist and his team. Identifying pottery shards and points became second nature to me. My dream was to become an archaeologist. Deep down, that dream never died :). Just ask...