Compatriot Steve Ray informed the ladies of the Long Leaf Pine Chapter of the DAR in Ruston Louisiana about the history of cast iron cookware and how it was even used in the Revolutionary War. Compatriot Ray covered the origins of cast iron cookware beginning in China up to the many different manufacturers that were even from the South such as the Hardwick Stove Company & Lodge Cast Iron, both of Tennessee and Birmingham Stove & Range & Martin Stove & Range who were both of Alabama.