Mail Call: November/December 2006

JACKPOT
Everyone likes GRIT
Great issue
Good work
Enjoying the new format
Keep rolling
Easy to love
uncertain
GRIT Carrier
Recipe response

JACKPOT

Congratulations, you have hit the jackpot with the new GRIT.

I have just finished clipping many beautiful and accurate photos of animals from GRIT. I do this for my nieces, nephews and grandchildren, to remind them of the wonderful world of animals we live in.

Having been raised on farms and in a small town in northwest Pennsylvania, I earned degrees in agricultural education from Penn State. I’ve always been close to rural soil. Your new magazine format will be a winner. As a member of a family that survived the Depression and peddled the GRIT for 50 years, we thank you.

Good luck and God bless.

VIncent Salmon
Kingman, Arizona

Everyone likes GRIT

I received my latest issue of GRIT, and I like the changes. I love the way the magazine is put together, and so do all my friends to whom I pass the GRIT. The only thing we didn’t like was the small print, although I realize you can get more in a magazine this way. I have good vision but I don’t like that fine print. My vision is 20/20 with glasses, and I turned 90 in March.

Eulah Custer
Wirt, Minnesota

Editor’s Note: We’ve changed the typeface some in this issue and hope it’s easier to read. Thank you for the good words, and Happy 90th!

Great issue

I was surprised to see a redesigned GRIT on the shelf of our local bookstore, so I bought it, and my husband and I are now reading it.

I remember GRIT from the 1960s, when I was a teenager. Our neighbor received it, and I couldn’t wait for him to pass it on to us. I loved the poems and patterns, and I still have several of the poems I clipped and pasted into my scrapbook.

Please don’t change the new format too much. I’ve watched publications go from very interesting farm-rural-oriented content to more suburban fare that really didn’t interest me.

This September/October issue is great. Our driveway is almost a mile long, and it’s had real problems over the years. I’m hoping we can finally figure out how to stabilize it with your article (“Here’s the Dirt on Rural Roads”) and the related Web sites you offered.