Comments on: ORAL HISTORY: Delivering Milk by Horse and Wagon

By: Lena A. Ames

Lena A. Ames — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 16:10:36 +0000

Mr. Mitchell,
I absolutely love your comments on how Cape Charles was in “the good ole days!” I have fond memories of waving to you in the tunnels on the Bay Bridge-Tunnel; however, my best memories are of your absolutely beautiful voice in First Baptist Cape Charles! I just remember your voice being SO beautiful and your raw and natural talents have always been an inspiration to me. Just thinking about some of your solos brings a tear to my eyes! I hope you’re still singing because your voice brought me and numerous others moments of pure joy! Thank you for being such a role model for young people as a good, Christian man! Give my love and best wishes to Mabel and Laurie (my cousins) and know that I think about all of you often! I’m so sorry to hear about Darrin; I did not know; however, I know that he is in a place where there is no more suffering and he will always be with all f you! All my love, Lena Ann
P.S. Maybe we can get together and do a duet and I will realize a dream! :-0)

By: Bill Powell

Bill Powell — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 01:31:12 +0000

Like Andy Dickinson I was a good friend of Jack Gladstone and loved to go to the farm after school or on Saturday. Jack was an only child and had the neatest cowboy gear and RCMP uniforms to play with. One stand-out memory was my old dog “Prince” liked to roll in the cow pies, then come where we were playing and shake himself. He was not popular. Strange what you remember from so many years ago.

By: Larry Beckett

Larry Beckett — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 04:12:53 +0000

Thank you, Mr. Mitchell, for your oral history. I have always respected you. And my uncle, John Jr., loved you until his death. Also, I thank you and your wife for visiting my mother; she enjoys the both of you.

By: Andy Zahn

Andy Zahn — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:31:19 +0000

I love your stories of older and better, less complicated times. I authored several stories published in the Irvington, NJ weekly newspaper about that wonderful town when the residents were middle-class, hard working, tax paying citizens and the town was entirely safe for young children and everyone else. It is now a wreck, a hot-bed of crime with many residents not paying their taxes, hospital bills or rent. The wonderful Olympic Park is no more and its merry-go-round is at Disney World in Florida. Many homes are abandoned and boarded-up.
The politicians destroyed Irvington and they have also destroyed New Jersey. We had a beautiful sea shore and great agriculture, factories and the latest in technology but the leaders kept spending and taxing and regulating to the point where many of us, myself included, “voted with our feet”.
In my 30 or so years in Virginia I see a lot of New Jersey being played out in Accomack County and in the Commonwealth.

By: Andy Dickinson

Andy Dickinson — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:31:05 +0000

David — Jack Gladstone and I were best of friends growing up and I spent many a night at the Gladstone home. I remember you well as we were about the same age. Paul and Mae Gladstone had the most burdensome life one could imagine in operating a dairy farm. They never had a day off and could never go out of town, and neither could you when you worked for them. What a commitment! Their day started around 3 or 4 each morning and ended around 8-9 p.m. after another of Mae’s wonderful suppers. Mae was the best cook I ever knew and Paul was a living testament. I can still savor her fried chicken, hot rolls, macaroni and cheese and lemon meringue pie!

You look great, and all that hard work appears to have agreed with you.

I remember Frank!

Andy Dickinson