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We have been told by many of our readers that the CSM Mailbox is the first thing they read when they open a new issue. We certainly love getting swamped with tons of your letters and consider every one for publication. We want to hear from you so keep those letters coming! While you’re at it, include a photo and we’ll publish it along with your letter. Be sure to include your phone number and complete mailing address. If your letter is chosen for publication in a future issue, you'll receive a free one-year subscription to Cecil Soil Magazine.*

Sincerely yours,
Ed Belote Sr, Publisher

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July/August 2010

Dear CSM Staff,

I want to thank you for my Cecil Soil sweatshirt! I always enjoy reading your magazine from cover to cover. I decided to reply last month to the “Where in Cecil County?” I was pleasantly surprised last Friday to learn my name had been selected from the random drawing.
Thank you again for my sweatshirt!

Yours truly,
Libby McCullough
Conowingo, Maryland

Dear CSM,

I would like to thank Ava Voshell for writing the article and Cecil Soil for publishing the article about Sunset Park.

Shorty Woods and the North Carolina Ridge Runners was the first country band to bring country music north of the Mason Dixon line and Sunset Park was the first place to show country and bluegrass music north of the Mason Dixon line.

Ernest Tubb always closed his show with, “Thanks… thanks a lot.”

Lawrence Waltman
Jennersville, Pennsylvania

My Dear Mr. and Mrs. Belote:

First I want to say that I really enjoy your magazine.

When your May/June 2010 arrived, I immediately saw my father’s picture on the cover “Elkton Chamber of Commerce...” My father, Stanley Evans of Elkton, is the second man in from the left and the shorter man in front of him with the white cap is Skip Heath. Skip was a lifetime friend of my father’s.

My father was born and raised in Elkton and lived there his entire life. He thought there was no place on earth as nice as Cecil County. He died in May 1979 at age 93.

Very Truly Yours,
Barbara Evans Oelschlaeger
Silver Springs, Maryland

Dear Ed,

You still make some very interesting reading and bring back a lot of memories of my living in Harrisville with my family. A lot of good times and not so good times, but they were all memorable. Wouldn’t trade any of it, because those were the good days.

Tell Carol that Jean and I were asking about her and to say hello. We may be coming up for the Rising Sun Alumni Banquet, on May 15th. If so, we will stop in and say hello.

Keep the good Cecil Soil Magazines coming. Many thanks for all the great articles.

Wilmer K.B. and Jean Fisher
Jacksonville, Florida

Dear Wilmer, Carol and I apologize for not arranging our busy schedule so that we could get together. Please forgive us. —Ed

Katie and Geoff Hazel Dear CSM,

Thanks so much for the wonderful stories! I am Robert Hazel’s 12 year old granddaughter and I’m proud of it! I love Pop Pop’s stories in this magazine and I love the memories from his past. Sometimes I wish that I could live during those times to skate on the ponds and be late for school on the ferries! There are no ponds near here and heck, it’s North Carolina! Where am I going to find a frozen pond to ice skate on anyway?

I love to run upstairs with my new issue sent to me from Chesapeake City and read my Pop Pop’s stories about meeting Granny. I also love the stories about my dad when he was a kid, living on the farm. Cecil Soil is so much fun to read! Thank you so much for helping me to keep in touch with my heritage!

Sincerely,
Katie Hazel (Pop Pop’s Sweetheart)
Raleigh, North Carolina

(photo: Katie Hazel, and her dad, Geoff Hazel)

Dear CSM,

What a great piece by Bob Hazel in the May/June issue! It brought back many fond memories of summertime romance at White Crystal Beach. I grew up in Wilmington, a short drive to Earleville. I can still smell the Coppertone and remember how clean the Chesapeake was at that time. How cool it was to dance on the boardwalk! I am now 67 and can still dance up a storm. Those 1950s were beautiful. Thanks for the memories.

Bob Norris
Lewes, Delaware

Cecil Soil Magazine,

The first time I ever saw or heard of the Cecil Soil Magazine was at Perry Point VA Hospital while waiting for my husband to see his doctor.I picked it up and started reading it and couldn’t put it down till I read it all the way through.

I was born in Colora. So I am familiar with some of the people and places in the magazine. Brings back memories.I enjoyed the magazine so much that I subscribed to it. Also I had to have all the previous issues starting with Issue #1.

Sincerely,
Betty (Caldwell) Earls
Havre de Grace, Maryland

Dear Mr. Belote,

I am writing in behalf of my father Charles Martin (I believe he went by Vincent when he lived in Rising Sun).

My dad and I were recently in Rising Sun for what has come to be an annual trip for the alumni dinner at Tome Academy in North East. Every time, we spend a day or so visiting Rising Sun. During this last trip, when eating dinner at Sue’s, we noticed the banner proclaiming the 150th anniversary. Nancy Pyle (Howard’s wife) sent out your magazine to dad as we are interested in the festivities. Hopefully he will be able to come back June 5, but if not, then some time between September 25 and October 2 for your week-long celebration.

Dad loves Rising Sun; he has a plot in the cemetery and feels it is where he grew up despite being born in Washington state in 1914. He moved to the area in 1925. His dad was paymaster and chief accountant for the company who built the Conowingo Dam.

During our last trip we visited the library and they have the historical book on the dam which he donated. He lived on Love Run near the Spready Oak when it was still a dead end street. He swam in the Octoraro Creek at Porters Bridge near the old mill. His good friends included Diddy Richardson, Joe Cooney, the Todds, Hall Robertson (Edna’s dad) among many others. He graduated the Colora School in 1927, and the hilltop Tome Academy in 1933. He is now 95, and remembers names, events, and locations clearly. Even in California where I grew up, in the Indian Guides, he was Chief Rising Sun. I believe dad is now the oldest alumnus of Tome still living.

The owner of Sue’s Restaurant met with us during our November 2009 trip when we were accompanied by dad’s little sister Connie (88 years). She went to Rising Sun High School. We met Hazel Jenkins on the trip. If you need any historical info please feel free to call me. Dad’s family moved in 1935 to California, after his dad had another work assignment. If you know of anyone in Dad’s age group we would be interested. We noted Albert Love’s name was still in the phone book.

Thanks,
Reg Martin
Westerville, Ohio

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