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July / August 2007
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  • Section 1: (cover - page 11: 5.4MB) Apryl Parcher: From the Editor's Desk | Table of Contents | Ed Belote Sr: Welcome to Cecil Soil | CSM Mailbox
  • Section 2: (page 12 - page 21: 4.1MB)"Ranger Rick" Barton: Cecil County Farmer - Patterson Community Farm| Robert Hazel: Life Along the Canal - Chesapeake City's Fireman' Carnivals in the Forties| Drewe Phinny:The "Can-Do" Anything Man—James Flaharty| County Profiles: Ed Okonowicz—America's Fireworks Arrive through Elkton
  • Section 3: (page 22 - page 33: 4MB) Carol Belote: Cecil County Critters| Mike Dixon: A Look Back with Dixon - End of the Line—Providence| Happy Birthday Verdie | JoAnn Dawson: Horse Tales - The Miracle of Birth| Apryl Parcher: Red Point Patriots | Along the Susquehanna: Erika Quesenbery—Capt. John Smith's 400th Anniversary | Cecil County: Calendar of Events
  • Section 4: (page 34 - page 44: 2.6MB) Apryl Parcher: John Sclavos—An Artist Remembers |Erika Quesenbery: APBA Boat Races to Rage on the Susquehanna | Amphicar | Times of Yore | Apryl Parcher: Joan B. Eckman and Hair N' Things | Apryl Parcher: Restaurant Review - Bella Pizza, Ristorante Cucina Italiana
  • Section 5: (page 45 - page 54: 3.8MB) Ed Belote Sr: Haircuts with Herb - An Interview with Herb Benjamin| Charles "Snuffy" Smith: Military Honors - Cecil County Salute to Veterans| John T. Loftus: Home-Grown Humor- All Minivans Look Alike| The Haircut
  • Section 6: (page 55 - page 64: 5.4MB)) Cecil Scrapbook | Charlie Quesenberry:Al Miller — A First-Rate Man for a Fair Job| Kyle Dixon: CC Yearbook | Fairwell to Rising Sun
  • Section 7: (page 65 - Back Cover: 5.6MB) Where in Cecil County? | UBCSS | Word Puzzle | Christine Parcher: Cecil's Grad News from the Peoples Repulic of China | Mike Collins: In Memory of Daniel Hall
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