A Peaceful Town
A town with old-fashioned values.26 total reviews
Comment from juliaSjames
Your love for your hometown runs through this write making a cohesive whole of disparate elements. As you describe it, the town seems almost otherworldly, a place set apart from the hustle and bustle of 21st century USA.
Not too long ago, the town where I live had orchards such as you describe but gradually these have been replaced by urban development. It's still an attractive place to live but the Covid years have wreaked havoc with the family businesses that once thrived here.
It was very nice to visit Shelby with you as my tour guide.
Blessings, Julia
reply by the author on 21-Aug-2024
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Your love for your hometown runs through this write making a cohesive whole of disparate elements. As you describe it, the town seems almost otherworldly, a place set apart from the hustle and bustle of 21st century USA.
Not too long ago, the town where I live had orchards such as you describe but gradually these have been replaced by urban development. It's still an attractive place to live but the Covid years have wreaked havoc with the family businesses that once thrived here.
It was very nice to visit Shelby with you as my tour guide.
Blessings, Julia
Comment Written 21-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 21-Aug-2024
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Thank you. I still live within half an hour from Shelby. I came from a family of twelve, and we all returned to Shelby eventually
Comment from Aiona
What a lovely piece about your hometown! I visited a friend in Michigan a few years back and thought it was so beautiful. The last time I went through there I went over Ambassador Bridge to Canada. It was before 9/11/2001, and NO ONE even asked for a passport. I just drove right over! Isn't that crazy? I look back on that and think.... wow.... times sure were different. Gorgeous gorgeous countryside.
reply by the author on 12-Sep-2023
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What a lovely piece about your hometown! I visited a friend in Michigan a few years back and thought it was so beautiful. The last time I went through there I went over Ambassador Bridge to Canada. It was before 9/11/2001, and NO ONE even asked for a passport. I just drove right over! Isn't that crazy? I look back on that and think.... wow.... times sure were different. Gorgeous gorgeous countryside.
Comment Written 11-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 12-Sep-2023
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Thank you for the lovely review and the six stars. I'm so glad you enjoyed your trip through Shelby with me. Things have changed a lot in the last few years. I hope they change for the better soon.
Comment from pome lover
what a lovely sounding town, with fruit trees blooming in the Spring and fruit ready for picking. I had to smile, however, at your saying you didn't return to Shelby, but lived 30 minutes away. Where I live, lots of places take close to 30 minutes to get to. Question: how did your family keep the fruit trees alive in the winters?
Katharine
reply by the author on 04-Sep-2023
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what a lovely sounding town, with fruit trees blooming in the Spring and fruit ready for picking. I had to smile, however, at your saying you didn't return to Shelby, but lived 30 minutes away. Where I live, lots of places take close to 30 minutes to get to. Question: how did your family keep the fruit trees alive in the winters?
Katharine
Comment Written 03-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 04-Sep-2023
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Thank you. Cherries, peaches, apples, and plums are the same as maple trees. They shed their leaves in the winter, then come back in the spring to bloom and produce another harvest.
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I'll be dern. Didn't know that. Thanks.
Comment from BethShelby
You've really made this place sound like a delightful place to live. I wonder how it came to be named Shelby which is my last name having married a Shelby. All the towns I've known named Shelby came for the same original family from Wales. It seems to me one of them married a Hart. I'll have that our. Good luck with this. It is a great tribute to your town.
Beth
reply by the author on 02-Sep-2023
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You've really made this place sound like a delightful place to live. I wonder how it came to be named Shelby which is my last name having married a Shelby. All the towns I've known named Shelby came for the same original family from Wales. It seems to me one of them married a Hart. I'll have that our. Good luck with this. It is a great tribute to your town.
Beth
Comment Written 02-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 02-Sep-2023
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Thank you. I find it interesting that your name is Shelby, and the origin of the name came from Wales. When I was a child, Shelby was populated by mostly German an Irish nationalities. My great grandfather homesteaded the farm where I was born and raised. He came straight from Germany.
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I looked up the history of the Township of Shelby Michigan and found it was named after my husband's family. The man they named it after was the bother to my husbans GGGGrandfather, Isaac Shelby. Below from history of Shelby
A legislative enactment of April 12, 1827 gave authority and the first township meeting was held at the double log house of Perez Swift on section 21 (23-24 mile roads/Van Dyke Ave.-Shelby). Calvin Davis presided, Abijah Owen was clerk and Joseph Lester Supervisor. Russel Andrus, William Arnold, Elias Wilcox, Elon Dudley and George Hanscom filled various offices that year. Shelby Township was named in honor of Revolutionary War hero and first governor of Kentucky, Isaac Shelby.
At the turn of the century, Shelby Township was mostly rural farmland, with two major hubs of activity within its borders.
"Back then there was nothing much in the township," said Kenneth Frank, a former member of the Shelby Township Historical Committee, "there was Utica and there was Disco."
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Wow! Thanks for the interesting information about Shelby. I never had any idea, but then, I never looked it up, either. I only knew my great- grandfather homesteaded the farm.
Comment from Lisasview
How wonderful that your entire family still lives in Shelby and that you have such a strong desire to go back one day.
I love that it has an old world charm... not many towns like that around anymore.
Good luck in the contest,
Lisasview
reply by the author on 02-Sep-2023
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How wonderful that your entire family still lives in Shelby and that you have such a strong desire to go back one day.
I love that it has an old world charm... not many towns like that around anymore.
Good luck in the contest,
Lisasview
Comment Written 02-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 02-Sep-2023
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Thank you. Shelby is a lovely place to be. Neighbors still help each other, and everyone knows everybody else. My great grandparents homesteaded the farm I was raised on.
Comment from Terry Broxson
This a wonderfully written story about your hometown. It sounds delightful. The way you wrote the story is most interesting. Part of the story is memoir. The other part tells about the changes from your youth to how the town is today. That is a very effective writing style for this story. Very well done. Terry.
reply by the author on 01-Sep-2023
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This a wonderfully written story about your hometown. It sounds delightful. The way you wrote the story is most interesting. Part of the story is memoir. The other part tells about the changes from your youth to how the town is today. That is a very effective writing style for this story. Very well done. Terry.
Comment Written 01-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 01-Sep-2023
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Thank you. I just wrote from the seat of my pants, or whatever came to mind. Thanks for reading and the kind words.
Comment from Ulla
So you have stayed close to where you once grew up. And you even say you would probably go back to live there one day. I love the Idea, but the whole concept is alien to me. You wrote a great memory. Good luck in the contest. Ulla:)))
reply by the author on 01-Sep-2023
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So you have stayed close to where you once grew up. And you even say you would probably go back to live there one day. I love the Idea, but the whole concept is alien to me. You wrote a great memory. Good luck in the contest. Ulla:)))
Comment Written 31-Aug-2023
reply by the author on 01-Sep-2023
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Thank you for reading and for the kind words. It is good to have roots in a special place
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I agree with you with having roots in a special place. That's what I have, just not where I grew up.I hope that makes sense.
Comment from barbara.wilkey
Thank you for sharing this tribute to your hometown with us as a contest entry. I enjoyed reading and Shelby seems like a very special place to grow up. Good luck with the contest.
reply by the author on 01-Sep-2023
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Thank you for sharing this tribute to your hometown with us as a contest entry. I enjoyed reading and Shelby seems like a very special place to grow up. Good luck with the contest.
Comment Written 31-Aug-2023
reply by the author on 01-Sep-2023
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Thanks for taking the time to read and review.
Comment from Iza Deleanu
This place sounds so idyllic and the vivid colors you used to describe it ... it kind of making wants to go and visit. Thank you for sharing and good luck with the contest.
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2023
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This place sounds so idyllic and the vivid colors you used to describe it ... it kind of making wants to go and visit. Thank you for sharing and good luck with the contest.
Comment Written 30-Aug-2023
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2023
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Thank you. Shelby is a lovely and peaceful place to live.
Comment from Liz O'Neill
A strong sensory image: "Rolling hills surround the town, and in the springtime, a person can almost get a beauty overload when orchards of cherry, apple, and peach trees burst into bloom." this could easily be a pagein a magazine entitled one of sweetest towns to live in.
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2023
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A strong sensory image: "Rolling hills surround the town, and in the springtime, a person can almost get a beauty overload when orchards of cherry, apple, and peach trees burst into bloom." this could easily be a pagein a magazine entitled one of sweetest towns to live in.
Comment Written 30-Aug-2023
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2023
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Thank you. I'm not exaggerating one little bit. I have seen some beautiful places, but I always come back to Shelby. It is an old-fashioned town.
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Vermont is a place I always miss when I'm away for a short time. I understand.