Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:

Congratulations to Byron Smail on the publication of his Cove history about the many area iron furnaces of the 19th century. He deserves credit for tackling a task he didn’t know he could do until — he did it!

My longtime Smithfield School mate, Gerald Burket, a former Huston Township supervisor and farmer, longs to assemble stories of generations of Piney Creek characters, mostly true. Several neighbors have scraped together some of the raw materials, but none of us seems eager to compile the saga Burket envisions. He knows well that everyone has a story; just ask other rural talespinners, like Galen Biddle and Jim Bloom. I know he’s a busy man, but maybe, like Smail, all Burket needs to do is sit down and start writing.

Robert Steele Davis

Waynesboro