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Dear CSM Letter Writers, Your letters are very important to us and folks from all over the county are always telling us how much they enjoy reading them. The CSM Mailbox is your forum to write about your memories of our beautiful Cecil County, and of course topics presented in Cecil Soil Magazine. 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. Winter 2006-07... Ed, Phyllis Kilby Dear Cecil Soil Magazine, As for the Alexander whose picture was published as a Confederate Soldier— seems his grave is marked wrong and as soon as I can talk to the family, I will be able to make things right unless the family deems unnecessary… a story in itself. Snow's Battery will be with Miss Erika (Erika Quesenbery), this Saturday at North East at the Yesterdays Festival. Miss Erika says that you would like to talk to us. We will also be at a local reenactment the following weekend up at Nottingham, PA, just over the Maryland Line. We invite you to fall in with us if time allows and we'll put you to work as a cannoneer. Again, we say, “Thank You!” Hopefully we all will be able to preserve a bit of Cecil History in our own respectable ways. Barry Lemley, Darlington, Maryland Dear CSM, Thank you, Dear Sir or Madam, I also enjoy the puzzle in the back of the magazine. I have just completed and enjoyed the flower puzzle. I am writing to ask if you could send me a copy of the “Cecil County Bird Word Puzzle”. I’ve always enjoyed birds and flowers and although it’s too late for the bird puzzle, I would still love that one to try. I am passing information about Cecil Soil Magazine to all of my friends too, and we are all enjoying trips that we have planned because of your advertisers. Thank you so much in advance for the copy of the “Bird Puzzle”. Rosalind A. Todd Dear Carol and Ed, What a gorgeous excuse to come out for a ride in the car and collect our own copy of Cecil Soil Magazine. I have since passed a couple of copies of CSM to my neighbors and we all tackle Carol’s puzzle at the back of the book also. Extra hours of great fun! We’ve visited the Kitty Knight House and also the Union Hotel Restaurant – both have been advertised in CSM! Readers, don’t forget to stop by and pick up a couple of your own issues or any back issues of CSM and meet Carol and Ed. Ring first though to make sure one of them is there. They are fun people to meet. Thank you for your great issues. Jerry and Rossy Todd
I must apologize for not giving you complete information about the picture of Dad in the field (top right). That was a wheat crop with an exceptionally good yield that year for which Dad was rightly pleased, thus the reason for the picture. Wheat was harvested at that time by cutting it with a binding machine which tied it into sheaves, then stacking the sheaves into shocks in the field until they were taken by wagon to a threshing machine. Again, thank you, we have already distributed copies to our families. Sincerely, [Publisher’s note – Thank you, Isabelle, for pointing me straight. I made the same mistake in the Cecil Scrapbook, (Levi Herr Donache, bottom image above) same issue. It is very obvious that they were harvesting wheat and not haying. I had a number of folks email us about this mistake and one fellow even stopped off the office to tell us.] Dear Mrs. Belote, In the Summer 2006 issue when I saw the three West children, the girl with the big bow jumped out at me. I knew I had seen her before and heard her name. I got my mother’s old school picture from the Jacob Tome Institute (early 1920s) and there she was. I am sending you a copy. Sorry the original is not in very good condition. My mother had some names on the back, one was Grace W. in row three. My mother is in the plaid dress in front. (Ellen Nesbitt). I am sending this for your enjoyment, it’s up to you if you publish it or not. Hope you enjoy! Barbara L. Powers [Publisher’s note – The Girl with the big bow was Carol’s Aunt Grace (deceased) and no one in Carol’s family was aware of the photo, which we’ve included in the Cecil Scrapbook on page 56 with a list of names.Thank you, Barbara.] Your magazine is just “ONE MORE REASON TO LOVE CECIL COUNTY”. Sincerely, P.S. Born and raised in Baltimore and Harford County – transplant to Cecil County in 1998. Ed and Carol, Love, Dear Mr. Belote, And, thank you for your wonderful magazine. We’ve lived in Cecil County for thirty years, and although most of the names we know, their stories, histories and adventures are new. Thanks for adding color to the Cecil County landscape. As always, we look forward to the next issue of Cecil Soil Magazine. Sandy Tabor Dear Cecil Soil Magazine, I have watched that tree on Route 213 for many years and was sad to see it gone last spring. Year after year it kept blooming on one crooked branch and always welcomed my spring return. I was glad to know that others cherished it, too. Sincerely, Dear CSM, Doris Simpkins Prewitt Dear Ed, I graduated from Elkton High School in 1949 and worked in a laundry and powder plant in Elkton. My two children and grandchildren live in the Bayview area and they like it there. Mrs. Venne Dixon Dear Cecil Soil Publisher, Jean T. Young Hey Ed, Picked up a back issue of the magazine. Reading the article in Herb’s Barbershop section, I realized that the person they were talking to and about was my grammar school teacher – Mr. Jessie Phillips (Dewey Mann School, PA). What a small world, took me back about fifty years. Congratulations again and keep up the good work. See you next year at the Banana turnout. Maybe a BUNCH OF PEOPLE will show up…. Thanks again for everything.
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