| Shirley Christy Martin | Email |
Jan 14, 2011
Comments:
My name is Shirley Christy Martin. I am daughter of Roy Christy. I have wonderful memories of visiting my Grandparents, Charlie and Betty Christy, and my Aunt, Virginia Christy, in Cliffside. My sister Lynne and I remember listening to a recording of Aunt Virginia's Glee Club. This was probably in the late 50s or early 60s.I believe this Glee Club won many awards and competitions.I am not sure what happened my Aunt's recording after she died. Does anyone have one of these records? I remember it was beautiful. I will check back to this Guest Book, or you can email me. Thanks!
Jan 8, 2011
Comments:
I am trying to obtain information about George C. Shuford who worked for the CRR and Cliffside Mills. I specifically need the dates Mr. Shuford worked as a Purchase Agent at the mill. I would greatly appreciate any info or direction. Please respond to email address: ronatchley@att.net
Dec 28, 2010
Comments:
I found this site looking for a news story about the recent weather in Cliffside. You see, my husband is working at the power plant up there, and I wondered if there were pictures of snow. I am just floored by this website. I wondered about the area when I was up there, there is a ghostly flavor to it. Now I know why. The power plant must have been the end of everything. Yet, the story continues, hundreds of families are still working and supporting their families by the sweat of their brows in Cliffside, so maybe it is not so differnt today as when the mills existed. It is a georgeous website, you all should be proud, and I am going to send a picture my husband gave me of the work being done on the Second Broad River, even if it is not very charming. I live in Florida, but not a day goes by that Cliffside is not in my mind and heart. Excellent and inspirational historical effort, and finally a decent use of the internet!
Dec 19, 2010
Comments:
My name is Judy Greene Smith. I was very happy to find the picture of Jenk's Grocery. My step-mother, Mittie Jenkins Greene, was the sister to Jenk's, of course we called him Uncle Jenk's. She was married to Ralph Lewis Greene. My Dad passed away in January, 1985, and my step-mother passed away in November, 1987. I say step-mother, but she was very much a real Mother to me. She raised my sister and me from a very young age.
I remember going to Uncle Jenk's store, and he would always give me peanut butter logs. Seeing this picture of him and the store brings back very fond childhood memories. I truly miss those days.
Mittie worked in the mill at Cliffside, and my Dad worked in the mill in Forest City. They were both very hard workers.
Thank you for sharing this information and giving me the opportunity to reminisce.
Nov 30, 2010
Comments:
Hi! I am Amy Bridges Drum. I am the Great Granddaughter of Raleigh Rutherford Haynes. I just wanted to let you know that I am so thankful for all the hard work you have put forth into this website. It is the essential part of the knowledge of what the town of Cliffside used to be. Even though I was not lucky enough to live in that "magical" era, I still try to put myself in that time. I look down the old pebbled sidewalks and think of how many people walked on them. Some of them going to work, school, or even just to shop. Everything was just in a sidewalks distance. Wow, how lucky everyone was back then! Instead of grabbing keys and a cell phone to go to run an errand, people put on their shoes,walk, and talked to a friend or neighbor on the way! Cliffside was just that way.
I look down the streets of where the town used to be. I ask my mom ( Janice Swing) at least one question about the town's history once a week. She is a great painter of stories of the town's history. She tells me of a town and life that is built on honesty, hard work and most of all happiness and love for one another.
The Cliffside Mill Town is gone, as everyone in the past knows it, but it's memory is still forever here in history. My generation can only imagine what a town of that stature was like back then. Thank goodness for all the pictures and stories you have brought together!
Raleigh Rutherford Haynes was the, truth that all things are possible!
|
