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BOOK REVIEW....of Berks County history
interest..... ===================================== ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF COMMITMENT TO COMMUNICATION SERVICES--1902-2002; 326 pages; 250+ illustrations; hardcover; 8.5 by 11 inches; published by Marie E. Cutman. Copies, at $36.80 tax included and postpaid, are available from Miss Cutman, P.O. Box 22, Morgantown, PA 19543. Books may be obtained at her Morgantown home at $31.80. Marie Cutman, a previously-published author who retired from the Twin Valley School District after some 30 years of dedicated service, was chosen by the directors of the erstwhile Conestoga Telephone & Telegraph Co. to compile a chronological and comprehensive history of their enterprise. After three years of poring through stockholder reports, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous files and photos, she finished this mightily impressive tome in time for the final stockholder meeting of Conestoga Enterprises, Inc.--on Thurs., May 23. The company has merged with D&E (Denver and Ephrata) Communications, Inc. While this well-crafted compilation was prepared with the telephone interests in mind, it contains so much general history of the Morgantown, Douglassville, Oley, Birdsboro, Plowville, etc. area, that the contents should have wide appeal. Local history buffs will delight in the plethora of vintage photographs, notices, and “informative ads.” A list of the first shareholders is included--as is an appendix giving the names of all directors from 1902 to the present. To Miss Cutman’s great credit, she includes an commendably comprehensive 18-page index. Printing quality is superior. - GMM IX - (Special thanks to Diane Van Dyke of "The Southern Berks News" who alerted us to this new publication. JOSEPH FARREL, popular columnist of the Reading Eagle-Times, will be doing a feature on Miss Cutman's book this coming week. Watch for it!) |
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