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WRITE US!
PHOTO MISIDENTIFIED
I'm writing in reference to the Dining
with Dan column in your July issue, titled
" From San Francisco to Blackstone, Virginia. "
The picture at the top of page 28, identified
as the San Francisco Bay Bridge, is wrong.
The picture is the Golden Gate Bridge taken
from the Marin County side of the bridge.
I would think you would either know that
or be more careful in your identifications.
As a native of San Francisco, I hate to see
our beautiful Golden Gate misidentified.
- Allyn Bamberger
Via email
CROSSROADS COLUMN
APPRECIATED BY READER
The Crossroads article in the July issue
on Eastville was a great article. It was very
informative and quite interesting. My great
grandfather, John T. Johnson, was born in
Eastville in 1849.
- Russell Handy
Dale City
OTHER WAYS TO GET YOUR
" HORSE CRAVING FIX "
I read Margo Oxendine's Rural Living
column in your July issue. In her story, she
says " even 'adopted' horses can teach
lifelong lessons. " I always take these
opportunities to suggest to anyone out
there who needs to fulfill their " horse
craving fix, " whether experienced or not,
that there are so many horse charities and
rescue groups. They are begging for
volunteers to help out, therapeutic riding
schools included. It does not take a rocket
scientist to clean a stall or brush a horse! If
HistoryMystery
Our June History Mystery portrayed Maria Isabella " Belle " Boyd
(1844-1900). Born in Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), Belle was a
Confederate spy in the Civil War known as the " Cleopatra of Succession. "
In 1861, when Union soldiers tried to hang a Union flag on her home and
assaulted her mother, she shot one of them. She was acquitted but was
kept under watch. Boyd conducted her spying from her father's hotel in
Front Royal while hiding in a closet near the parlor. She crossed Union lines
to tell Gen. Stonewall Jackson's men the Union soldiers' plans. Jackson sent
Belle a letter of gratitude. Boyd was awarded the Southern Cross of Honor.
In total, she was arrested six times, imprisoned three times, and exiled twice.
She published a memoir recalling her days as a spy. She pursued an acting
career, and traveled the country giving lectures on her war experiences.
Reader Mildred Embree of Culpeper was our $25 winner.
Congratulations, Mildred! n
Go online to co-opliving.com/contests/historymystery for the August History Mystery!
WherezIt?
Look for the CL, like the one here, in the pages of each issue of Cooperative
Living. Let us know what page you find it on by submitting your answer,
along with your name, address and phone number by mail to WherezIt?, c/o
Cooperative Living, P.O. Box 2340, Glen Allen, VA 23058-2340 or go online at
co-opliving.com under " Contests. " The deadline for this month's entries is
Aug. 20. The winner will receive a gift card for $25. n
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you are scared to death of horses
(or mules and donkeys), you
can help with donations of
money to save an animal or a
child with disabilities in need.
Check out horse rescue groups
or therapeutic riding stables in
your area. You will love it and it
is certainly easier than owning a
horse of your own.
- Marcia Byram
Toms Brook
READER OFFERS
SUGGESTION
I always enjoy reading your
magazine, particularly the
Viewpoint, Crossroads, Co-op People and
Rural Living columns. In the July 2019
edition, Viewpoint described the Greatest
Generation and their contribution towards
the electrification of rural America and the
Co-op People column highlighted the
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centenarian life of Milford Hartman.
Accordingly, my story suggestion to
Cooperative Living is to identify co-op people
who remember when electricity was brought
to their rural homestead by their local electric
cooperative and what immediate effect it had
on their family and their farms. And if
something like this has been done in the past,
perhaps a reprise of that article could be done in
celebration of some forthcoming anniversary
event. Thanks for the consideration.
- John Ruhlmann
Strasburg
TO TRESPASS OR NOT TO TRESPASS,
STILL IN QUESTION
As a landowner on the Bullpasture with
a land grant, I believe the writer of a
Mailbag letter in your July issue is in error.
She wrote, " If paddlers don't touch the
bottom they are not trespassing. " My land
grant gives dominion over, on and under
the property, therefore the waters are
covered. The issue of trespassing was
adjudicated many years ago in favor of
the landowner.
- Henry C. Marshall
Mechanicsville
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