Mrs

Dear Mrs. Shoupe,

My wife and I look forward to reading your column each week. It's a refreshing touch of Kentucky that makes Miami, Florida tolerable.

God Bless,

Dear Myrtle,

Hello. I just discovered you and the Hima news today. You are wonderful and I don't want to miss a day without your column. Keep on doing what you're doing. I love you.

Hello there

My friend Carol in Barbourville told me about your web-site. She knows I like to hear about life in Kentucky and she assured me that your column was the best at 'telling it like it is'.

My name is Dionne Dunsmore and I live in Stoneyburn, a tiny village in West Lothian, Central Scotland, UK. I don't know if you get much mail from Scotland, this may even be the first.

I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed everything I read there and look forward to reading your updates on a weekly basis. I wish you many more years of continuing to serve your community.

Thank you for providing the news.It is nice to be able to read about news from home. My family and I live in Tulsa Oklahoma and don't hear from the family there very often. Hopefully one day we will make a trip home and get to meet you.

Thank you and God bless.

Ms. Shoupe, As I was browsing the web for info on some property in Clay County I stumbled on your column. I, however, have picked myself up after reading some of your dialougue and I and am walking a little bit better because of you! Keep up the great job!

I am most happy to have found your column. It makes a bad day very bright. It is a joy to read. Wish I had more info. on your town. Certainly seems like a wonderful place to visit. Living here in Eastern Canada, your column reminds me so much of the old homestead and surrounding neighbours. Hope you have a wonderful 2000 and many more.

I used to live in Manchester about 25 years ago. My wife and I live in the Middle East (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) we've been in this part of the world for about 3 years. I wanted to drop you a note and let you know you have fans all over the world.

I am originally from Clay County anf I now live in Missouri. Your website makes me feel like I'm home again. It's good to hear news from my hometown.

I just wanted to let you know that I enjoy reading your column on the internet very much. I have your site bookmarked on my browser. I am from Jackson, KY in Breathitt County but currently I am finishing my last semester at Morehead State University. Keep up the good work.

Let me first start out by saying how wonderful it is to have found your page. There are many ideas and kinder attitudes that my generation and the generation after mine has lost. It is nice to come across such “old fashioned” thoughts on the internet.

My husband and I really look forward to ready your section of the Manchester Enterprise, we live in Eaton, Ohio but we venture down there every year because my husband was born in Teges.

Myrtle, we love your column here in Tampa, Florida you have a lot of people reading your column at WFLA-TV. They all know all about you and I bring the paper in every week. Keep writing the column and hope you feel better soon. I really miss my home town.

Hello again from Looney’s Gap. Hope this letter finds you feeling much better and up and around. It has been a busy summer here on the farm. We had a full calf crop this year, we didn’t lose a one. The tobacco looks real good. We topped and sprayed it last week. I guess we’ll be cutting it in another week.

My garden could have been better this year but dry weather seemed to stunt most of the vegetables early. I bush hogged through a bumblebees nest and got popped a few times. Of course I swelled up like a big balloon and everybody laughed. The grapes are real good this year, a few more days and I’m going to make the jelly fly. Even though the dry weather has make the garden season short, I’ve noticed the cellar is getting full. I’ve canned beans and tomatoes. I didn’t make any pickles this year. The cucumbers were in short supply and I just decided to eat them fresh and sit around and remember how good they were this winter. Ha ha. We’re putting a beef in the freezer next week and I’m going to have a freight train load of pumpkins if nothing don’t happen to them. I don’t think anybody will starve around here this winter.

Have you been eating any fresh peaches? They won’t be around much longer. I had an adventure last week, I was hauling cattle for a neighbor in his brand new featherlite aluminum trailer and crumpled the fender up on it. poor guy, I know he wanted to frail the daylights out of me but he handled the situation real well. I was mortified I just knew he would blow into bits when I told him.

Life gets tedious sometimes. Everyone here is well and I hope you are the same. Stay out of the hot weather it will zap you in a heartbeat. Me and my dad have been trying to figure out how to mount a shade tree on the tractor so we can mow hay in the shade. We would appreciate any and all suggestions you might have on the project. Ha ha. God bless you Mrs. Shoupe until next time.

Just stopped in to see how you were doing. I have been to your site several times to catch up on news there in your Kentucky home, and have recommended it to many of my friends. When I am feeling a little sad and confused about the world, I come see you at your site and it eases my heart that there are still people like you in the world. I am praying for you, Myrtle, and hope you get well soon.

Dear Myrtle Shoupe,
My name is Stevie W. and I have been a fan of yours for about a year and a half now. I was introduced to your column by my good friends, Lisa Asher and Jeff Waxman. Lisa reads your columns in her show and speaks of you fondly. I just wanted to drop you a quick note to say how much I have enjoyed hearing about you from Lisa Asher and how nice it was to find your web page. I would just like to wish you God Bless and health and happiness. I will be looking for you on the web every week now.
Sincerely,

Dear Myrtle,
I was so glad to hear about your site on the web. My family and I now live on the east coast, Virginia, and only get "home" about once a year so it’s so good to be able to catch up on what is going on back home. My parents grew up in Manchester but now reside in Michigan. They suscribe to the Enterprise so they told us about your new web site. Good for you, keep up the good work.

Good morning, well at least it is morning as i write this. I just wanted to let you know that i love your writings...smiles.. it is nice to see someone still reporting about the going on that happen in a small community. I live in Waco, Texas and a good friend of mine that lives in Manchester told me about your writings....smiles.. and i must tell you that i read it every week. Well i can’t write much more because i must get off to work. Hope all is well with you and you are in my prayers.