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Dear CSM Letter Writers, Your letters are very important to us and folks from We get tons of letters after every issue is distributed, but the funny thing is, the more we get, the more we want! To thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us, we'll have a free “Proud to be from Cecil Soil" T-shirt waiting for you at our Rising Sun office should your letter be selected for publication. Be sure to include your T-shirt size and contact information. We look forward to hearing from you! Thank you kindly. Sincerely yours, P.S.— We've provided a simple and convenient form that you may use, if you wish. May / June 2007... Dear Cecil Soil Magazine, Could you please tell me where I can find more information on Tome? I would appreciate hearing from you, Cecil County is a lovely area. Thank you 410-398-1790 - ETB Dear Ed , How interesting it was back then circa 1948-1949? Stores and people were different then. We had Pogue & Roberson’s Variety Store, Poists’ News Agency, two hardware stores with the old wooden creaky porches. They sold everything imaginable. Also, we had two banks. I actually lived on Main Street where the present Ace Hardware is today. Back then it was a four unit apartment building – Vickery’s on one end and us on the other. In the middle two apartments were the Finnifrocks and Bus and Jean West. My brother and I spent many, many hours there. Back then everybody knew everybody else and everyone looked out for each other. We had quite a few gas stations and everyone from all over loved “Shallcross Sausage.” Not many remember when the Post Office was in a tiny little building on Cherry Street (site of present flower store now). There were a few kids that grew up in town – known as “the town kids.”Everyone knew us. Does anyone remember these “town kids?” Nancy McCardell, Patsy and Billy Spencer, Carolyn Shallcross, Terry and Woody Vickery, Butchie Brumfield,Sally Knabb, Jimmy and Patsy Hudson (my brother and I), Jane Cameron, Billy and Carol Buck, Michael McFerren, Sandy and Sharon Yates, Joan and Suzanne Poist, Tommy Davis, Emma Robinson, Billy McNamee, Eddie and Dottie Little, John Ryan and I apologize for the other names I can’t remember. My favorite thing was to go to Ashby’s Drugstore & Special Gifts for a very special “Chocolate Nut Sundae” made by Mr. Clarence Ashby or Catherine Kirk or Richard Goodie. I called you last week because I am so taken with Cecil Soil Magazine. It is so interesting hearing about people you have known or maybe had forgotten about. I always read it cover to cover. Every one I know loves it too. I know it takes a lot of work and I commend you and all involved with Cecil Soil Magazine. Patsy Coale Dear Carol and Ed, Though I reside in Pennsylvania, I work in Elkton. On my drive to and from work and on weekend excursions, I often find myself suffering from Cecil envy. I look forward to each new issue of your magazine. Keep up the great work! Sincerely, PS – Please consider including the enclosed original poem and/or photo of mine in your magazine. The photo was taken a few weeks ago on Telegraph Road (Rt. 273) just east of Fair Hill. That is a beautiful poem and picture and we would be honored to publish both, thank you. See page 33– ETB
Hello Mike, (Dixon) The article about my father, Dr. Peter Stavrakis, was wonderful, and everyone loved it - thank you so much. Did my sister ever get back to you with an address where to send a hard copy to my mother and perhaps a couple for us? If not, let me know. I may be going out east in mid May in which case, I will let you know and I'll see if there is any pictures or stuff to donate. My sister plans to go through all the papers in the house at some point, but knowing her, it will not be soon, so perhaps I will have to do it. Thanks again, and let me know if there is anything else you plan to write. Olga Stavrakis
Dear Mr. Belote, I was pleased that Jennifer Null is now on board. We have known her since she was an “elf” and I can assure you she will be an excellent employee. Keep up the good work. Gary & Debbie Storke
Dear Ed, Beccie's Bark-ery,
Dear Ed, Just finished reading CSM and enjoyed it again, as usual. What a success CSM has become. It’s getting harder and harder to find a copy. If we at the hospital manage to find one, it gets passed around until all have read it, then it goes to our Magazine Lady to be put out and it never lasts very long. Am dropping you this note to invite you to our annual Card Party as my guest for lunch. You will see a lot of old familiar faces and of course it’s for dear old UNION. I won’t be wearing my six-shooters this time so you’ll be safe. Sincerely, Dear Cecil Soil Magazine, My husband and I enjoy your magazine. The Schrader Family feature was great! Sincerely, Last issue’s theme was, “Find 40 Cecil County Trees”– CWB
Also, I just wanted to say that I love the magazine and look forward to reading every issue that comes out in the future! William R. Cook
My information is from the 1936 Year Book ~ the year I graduated from the Jacob Tome Institute. Sincerely, Dear Cecil Soil, I know I have an issue or two to come, but since you are going to publish more often I want to get it all the time and not miss any of them. I am enclosing a check for a one-year subscription. I will make a suggestion – please put on the label the date when it runs out so all of us who get one won’t miss an issue. Thank you Thank you Mr. Belote for publishing such a good magazine. Mrs. Sweet Dear Ed,  My name is Barbara Gatchell Raech. I am writing to thank you for the excellent article on Joe McKinney. This is my uncle. I was only 4 years old when he died. We knew he died in the English Channel and was torpedoed, but didn’t realize that he was crushed between two ships. This is a wonderful article. I have known the Lett’s for a long time but don’t see them anymore. Most have passed on. I called Nick and Delores and thanked them for helping. We talked for a while about the war. I don’t remember Uncle Joe a lot, but I remember the day before he was to leave. He came in with his gear and we all tried on his gas mask. My mother, Edna C MCKinney Gatchell was his sister. The article brought tears to my eyes for an uncle lost. He was only 19 years old. Thank you again. Barbara G. Raech P.S. If mom was alive she would have loved the article. Hello! I’ve won my second sweatshirt for doing the puzzles. Thank you so much. My grandson, Dr. Josh McGrath is Assistant Professor in “Soil Fertilization & Nutrients Management.” He is at the University of Maryland in College Park. He wanted to know where I got the sweatshirt. He said “I need one of those and I told him I would try to win one for him and I did. He works quite a bit in Cecil County and he will wear it whenever he is in Cecil County. If you sell your magazine I would like to subscribe to it. Thank you Dear Mr. Belote, Glad that Cecil Soil Magazine will now be bi-monthly. And, the glossy pages are great. Wondering, could you put an address on the enclosed letter to Geraldine McKeown? We don’t have a computer. A country boy, Robert McKeown was in my ’42 graduating class in Elkton. Maybe he is a relative of Geraldine. Also, she and I have a lot in common. We both studied art in college and had to put up with abstract art lessons. I have hopes of attending the Elkton High School reunion this summer. The last reunion we attended was in 1992 for our 50th. My 84 year old brother, Edward, was living with his son in Kentucky till he passed on in January. We didn’t attend the funeral in Saginaw, Michigan because of the weather. Thank you for all your help. Duane Borden Dear Ed, Sometime back my Niece, Jeryle McCardell, who lives close to Port Deposit, Maryland mailed me a copy of your CECIL SOIL MAGAZINE and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it from cover to cover. At that time, I subscribed to the CECIL SOIL MAGAZINE, myself and have looked forward to receiving it each time that it is printed. Since I am very familiar with most all of the areas that you write about, and since I grew up just west of Rising Sun, many names of people and of places come to mind as I read each issue. I look forward to continue reading the CECIL SOIL MAGAZINE. I enjoyed talking to you on the phone on Friday of last week. To keep informed of what is happening around Cecil County, and surrounding areas, I will look forward to receiving your next issue. Sincerely Dear Ed Belote, We thank you for supporting us in your Cecil Soil Magazine. With the wonderful advertising you have designed and the articles you have placed in your magazine we have attracted scores of theatre attendees from several different states. It is people like our friends at Cecil Soil who help businesses to succeed. We thank you Cecil Soil Magazine, you, Carol and staff for your support and look forward to continuing to work with you. Sincerely, Dear Ed and Staff, All of us at Galvinell wanted to sincerely thank you for the great article you ran in Cecil Soil Magazine. A big thanks to Drew Phinny, who I think learned a lot about “butchering” from us. He did a great job of explaining what it is that we do here. The article has brought a lot of interest from the public and not to mention a few new customers. Thanks again for the great article and magazine. Ed----See you at the cook-off! Jennifer Sexton Mes Sieurs,et Sieureuses,  I enjoyed your expose on Mr. James E. Mitchell. It took me to reminiscence. When I met Buffy Sainte-Marie, Peter and Paul, of “Peter, Paul and Mary” fame were working on a glitch in her amplifier at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island. It was the same year that “The Loving Spoonful” arrived in a helicopter, to make an impression, I guess. I had never seen a woman in full bloom, and that close… who wasn’t somebody’s mom, an elder at church or a teacher in school or all three by then. So I danced a circle of proposal all around her. She probably thought I was throwing a fit. I also, met “Mississippi John Hurt” there. I saw Buffy again that year, at the Philadelphia Folk Festival held in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania. I was seated on a hugh boulder when Arlo Guthrie wandered onto the scene. I introduced him to Wendy Stone… who “just had to meet him.” Well, I don’t want to go on and on and on, or I will have covered a page, but I do thank you for your very sensitive exposition in the March-April edition of Cecil Soil Magazine. Sincerely I am Dear Cecil Soil Magazine I want to send a subscription of your magazine to an old friend of mine and also, get one for myself. My Husband picked up the first issue at a store here in Newark. I thoroughly enjoyed it and told him to watch out for the next one. I have seen several, but know I missed a couple along the way. I have enjoyed reading about people I know or have heard about. I grew up in the Fair Hill area and moved here to Newark in 1959 when I got married. My friend Mrs. Foster also grew up in the area a few years ahead of me. We often discuss how great it was to have a childhood in what we call “God’s Country” – peaceful and everyone knew and looked out for each other. Thanks for the magazine and I look forward to receiving all copies. Susan S. Kemether P.S. I’m also making time to go to Ripples, The Mistletoe Christmas Shop and Iron Bridge Farm. I learned about all of them from Cecil Soil Magazine.
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