Dear Editor,

Mt. Morris — What I like about you:

These are my thoughts a year after our Mom, Evelyn Pulver, died at her lovely home on Lincoln Street.

You are Gene Shepherd’s America, especially in your Fourth of July celebration with parade, band and fireworks.

Dillehay Park with its gaming fields, 6/10 mile track and killer workout stations. Walkers and runners who are regulars at the track each morning like the Bennetts and Pearsons.

The village workers who keep all the parks and common properties looking like a Rockwell or Kincaid painting.

The people like the Isabels, Sallys, Emmets, Jerrods, Annies, Bonnies, Abbys, Mallorys, Stans, Kathys, Tierras, Ruths, Marys, Esthers, Lees, Bettys, Jerrys, Angies, Loris, and Pastor Ginny.

Your library and librarians, especially Mary who made sure Evelyn never ran out of books to satisfy her unquenchable thirst for mystery and romance.
The pizza and great fish and the restaurants serving them.

Sullivan's store, only a block away with values rivaling super stores and employees who put "Wally-World" to shame with friendliness and courtesy.
David and Magee who never tire of building businesses to serve the community and ideas to serve its customers needs.

Jerry Griffin whose joy is in serving people and inventive ways to get the deal done. I will always be in awe of American values being demonstrated on a daily basis.

Haircuts good and bad and the realization that the only difference between the two is seven days.

All you beautiful people who said a sincere “have a great day”and managed a smile even when you didn’t feel like it.

You Hospice people who manage to show love at all times.

Tiara the golden retriever next door who gave me so much joy accepting my treats.

The overly tolerant neighbors who never complained about the music coming from Mom’s garage even the six-hour concert following her Celebration of Life service.

The Finch family and the caring way they guided us through a not so easy time. Thank you Lou and Lou.

Mt. Morris, your people continue to offer great abundance to struggling small town America. You have every right to hold your head high. I am grateful to have met you.

Thanks,

William Sutter

Spring Hill, Fla.

Liked library program

Dear Editor,

At the Mt. Morris LIbrary on Sunday, Sept. 9, retired professor of Loyola University, Lewis Erenberg, presented a lecture focusing on civilian as well as military orchestras of Glen Miller, the most popular band leader of the swing era, who was in the service, and in an airplane crash, made the ultimate sacrifice in Dec. 1944.

He furnished music, including "Moonlight Serenade", "In the Mood" (which was the theme of my senior prom at Lawrence High School, Long Island, N.Y. in 1941), Just For You", "I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo", "St. Louis Blues", "Here We Go Again", "Serenade in Blue", "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me", "I'll Walk Alone 'Til You Come Back", "I Don't Get Around Much Anymore", "All or Nothing at All", etc.

He covered such greats of the era as Helen Forest, Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, and of course talked about the USO and VV for victory.
Many thanks to the library for a pleasant program filled with countless memories.

Anna A. Hatzipanagiotus

Mt. Morris