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The power of human connections I have long appreciated and enjoyed your monthly magazine, as has everyone in my family and community. With so many magazine publications closing up shop in the present economic times, it is amazing that your customers can still enjoy a monthly magazine with such a variety of valuable articles and information. Unlike so many “free” publications offered for clients and customers of various businesses and organizations, your magazine is a treasure that offers something for everyone—from incentives for educators (Bright Ideas) to great recipes for the homemaker. Just as your power lines connect us across the miles, your sharing our ideas and memories connects us as well. Collette Deviney, Casar, Rutherford EMC
Carolina Country in the classroom This will make the ninth year that I have used your magazine in my language arts classroom, and I continue to have huge success with my students. As a monthly periodical, my students become accustomed to its arrival and are now eager to “take a walk” through its pages, combing the various sections and determining what is of particular interest for our seminar discussions. Your magazine opens the world of enormous subjects to the students, in a reader-friendly manner. The wealth of high-interest topics and the extended, enhanced vocabulary are great assets to the text. Carolina Country is an easy way to spark students’ interest in reading informational text with a twist. Students even return to the classroom to exchange stories they have shared with their families about your articles.
Bridge to a little heaven The story “A Passion for Covered Bridges” [May 2010] left out one bridge located just off Hwy. 105 in Foscoe between Linville and Boone. It crosses the Watauga River in the Sleepy Hollow development on private property and is not maintained by the county or state governments. I don’t know much about the bridge, but I was told it was built by a private contractor in 1927, and with periodic repairs remains somewhat the same since its original construction. It takes us six hours in the car to get to our little piece of heaven, and the bridge is a welcome sight after the long drive. Bill Carson, Hilton Head Island, SC
Cynthia Parker, Duplin County Schools Editor’s note: Teachers who are interested in using Carolina Country in their North Carolina curriculum should write to editor@carolinacountry.com
Take a bite out of crime Our neighbor’s pot-bellied pig comes in the pasture and steals the horse’s apples. How about that swine! Maybe, he will get the hint. Carol Wright, Candler, Haywood EMC
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