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I was very pleased with your new web site and find everything I've read so far very interesting and I am truly enjoying reading the different stories.

As you know I spent 3 of my teen years between 1967 through 1970 in Cofield living with my (and your) Aunt Madelyn Mountain and Uncle Paul. Well coming from a large city like Chicago I had quite an adjustment period. At first I was so bored I thought I wouldn't make it. Finally after a few months there I got used to things.

Going to school was always the best time of the day and I never before thought I would be able to say that. Aunt Madelyn was so sweet to me and tried her best to make me feel loved and at home and I truly did.

We used to spend many a Sunday just driving around in the old Impala. I listened as she gave me details on just about every house we passed the people that lived there and I think I know as much about the area as someone
that had lived there all their lives.

Myself and my cousin Vivian Mountain walked nearly everyday after school to Uncle Tupper's store to buy Pepsi and candy. Uncle Tupper always made sure that I was able to have more than what I came there prepared to purchase. I always hated the days it was raining and we couldn't take that walk because I loved it so much. It seems funny now how those little things made me happier than anything else did.

I loved to just sit on the front porch and look across the highway at the trees and the fields. My mother Ruth Henderson retired and moved away from Chicago in 1984 and now lives in Winton. I still make quite a few trips to the area during the year, and I love the smell in the air as soon as I pass through
Suffolk because I know I'm getting close.

My life changed a great deal when I returned to Chicago to finish my senior year in High School and I will forever miss all the wonderful family, friends and stories that made those three years the best of my life... Also "You got some pretty brown eyes!"

-Harriet Henderson-Nelson, Chicago

[Note: Harriet’s high school boyfriend said as an opening line to her, “You got some pretty brown eyes.”]

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Hi! I live in California and was delighted to read and peruse your website. Thank you so much for your tribute to my Uncle Jim - I miss him so much - Thank you also for your website about the Roanoke-Chowan area.

-Valerie Sumner

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I just left the website and I love it. I am going to go back when I really have some time and look at it with [my son] Jordan. Thanks for what you do. You keep us alive.

-Lamonica Mountain, Baltimore

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