Folks, whoa whoa!! Please consider Miss Vivian's age! We can't all be calling and bombarding her with phone calls and wearing the poor soul out. I do not know if she is still spry and up and about like before and still involved in genealogy, but I would hate for her to be upset with us! Perhaps someone who knows her well can find out if she is receptive to receiving genealogy mail first. Shirley -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [MDCHARLE] Friendship Hey Mur, Do you by any chance have her address. I would dearly love to contact Ms Vivian! Or does anyone else? Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [MDCHARLE] Friendship >I must have missed the queries about Sunnyside Farm, but this is all >heart-string-pulling information for me. Mrs. Edward B. Edelen still >lives on Sunnyside and if any of you want to know about genealogy, Miss >Vivian is the lady to call! She is 89 now, I think, and is a wealth of >information about the families in Southern Maryland. What she recalls off >the cuff surpasses what many of us can do with our notes in front of us! >She has files and files of research and is articulate in describing >connections. She does not have a computer - all her work is hand-written - >beautifully, by the way; she was a teacher, and her handwriting is lovely >and distinctive. Anyway, thanks for the reference to Sunnyside; my Mom and >Miss Vivian were close friends, and she epitomizes all that is good about >Southern Maryland: she is a genteel, articulate, thoughtful, considerate, >lady - what David found so appealing about his grandmother and great-aunts >still lives in Miss Vivian Edelen. > Mur > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:28 AM > Subject: [MDCHARLE] Friendship > > > > > CHARLES COUNTRY HISTORIC SITES SURVEY > > PHASE 1&2: Site Summaries > > Sunnyside Farm Circa 1868; 1920 > > CH-214 > > Bryantown vic. > > Private > > Once consisting of 750 acres near the village of Bryantown, Sunnyside Farm > contains an array of historic buildings > > from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries. Standing as a centerpiece is > a > large 2 ½ story front gable frame dwelling built c. > > 1868 and extensively renovated between 1915-1920. This dwelling is > surrounded by several typical outbuildings grouped in four > > areas including a domestic yard, a farmyard, and barn clusters in the rear > and south fields barn. Contributing outbuildings include > > a smokehouse, milkhouse and brooder house in the domestic yard; a carriage > house, stable, equipment shed, and a granary with an > > attached workshop in the farmyard; a dairy barn and tobacco barn in the > rear > field; and three tobacco barns, a stripping shed and a > > tenant house in the south field. > > Sunnyside Farm is a good example of an evolving farmstead in Charles > County > from the mid-19th to early 20th > > century. First established by Benjamin Marcellus Edelen in 1868, Sunnyside > is believed to stand on land that was once part of > > the Boarman Manor grant of 1696. During the first half of the 19th > century, > Benjamin Marcellus Edelen (1834-1915) acquired > > property from his father George Edelen and, just after the Civil War began > constructing the dwelling house that is the centerpiece > > of the farm today. After his death, the property eventually descended to > Benjamin's son Edward George Edelen (1880-1915) > > who is responsible for the construction of many surviving outbuildings and > who oversaw a substantial renovation of the dwelling > > during the 1920's. Sunnyside Farm is recognized by the Maryland Department > of Agriculture as a Century Farm, having operated > > as a working farm by the same family for over 100 years. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > ________________________________________________________________________ > AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free > from AOL at AOL.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

You're right, Shirley; Miss Vivian is 89. I gave David her mailing address separately just so she wouldn't be inundated with contacts -- I really should have thought about that before I expounded on her many virtues. She is such a dear lady, and already has requests from many states about her research and all. I apologize for being thoughtless; thank you for reminding us of our boundaries. Mur -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 9:47 PM Subject: Re: [MDCHARLE] Sunnyside and Vivian Edelen Folks, whoa whoa!! Please consider Miss Vivian's age! We can't all be calling and bombarding her with phone calls and wearing the poor soul out. I do not know if she is still spry and up and about like before and still involved in genealogy, but I would hate for her to be upset with us! Perhaps someone who knows her well can find out if she is receptive to receiving genealogy mail first. Shirley -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [MDCHARLE] Friendship Hey Mur, Do you by any chance have her address. I would dearly love to contact Ms Vivian! Or does anyone else? Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [MDCHARLE] Friendship >I must have missed the queries about Sunnyside Farm, but this is all >heart-string-pulling information for me. Mrs. Edward B. Edelen still >lives on Sunnyside and if any of you want to know about genealogy, Miss >Vivian is the lady to call! She is 89 now, I think, and is a wealth of >information about the families in Southern Maryland. What she recalls off >the cuff surpasses what many of us can do with our notes in front of us! >She has files and files of research and is articulate in describing >connections. She does not have a computer - all her work is hand-written - >beautifully, by the way; she was a teacher, and her handwriting is lovely >and distinctive. Anyway, thanks for the reference to Sunnyside; my Mom and >Miss Vivian were close friends, and she epitomizes all that is good about >Southern Maryland: she is a genteel, articulate, thoughtful, considerate, >lady - what David found so appealing about his grandmother and great-aunts >still lives in Miss Vivian Edelen. > Mur > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:28 AM > Subject: [MDCHARLE] Friendship > > > > > CHARLES COUNTRY HISTORIC SITES SURVEY > > PHASE 1&2: Site Summaries > > Sunnyside Farm Circa 1868; 1920 > > CH-214 > > Bryantown vic. > > Private > > Once consisting of 750 acres near the village of Bryantown, Sunnyside Farm > contains an array of historic buildings > > from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries. Standing as a centerpiece is > a > large 2 ½ story front gable frame dwelling built c. > > 1868 and extensively renovated between 1915-1920. This dwelling is > surrounded by several typical outbuildings grouped in four > > areas including a domestic yard, a farmyard, and barn clusters in the rear > and south fields barn. Contributing outbuildings include > > a smokehouse, milkhouse and brooder house in the domestic yard; a carriage > house, stable, equipment shed, and a granary with an > > attached workshop in the farmyard; a dairy barn and tobacco barn in the > rear > field; and three tobacco barns, a stripping shed and a > > tenant house in the south field. > > Sunnyside Farm is a good example of an evolving farmstead in Charles > County > from the mid-19th to early 20th > > century. First established by Benjamin Marcellus Edelen in 1868, Sunnyside > is believed to stand on land that was once part of > > the Boarman Manor grant of 1696. During the first half of the 19th > century, > Benjamin Marcellus Edelen (1834-1915) acquired > > property from his father George Edelen and, just after the Civil War began > constructing the dwelling house that is the centerpiece > > of the farm today. After his death, the property eventually descended to > Benjamin's son Edward George Edelen (1880-1915) > > who is responsible for the construction of many surviving outbuildings and > who oversaw a substantial renovation of the dwelling > > during the 1920's. Sunnyside Farm is recognized by the Maryland Department > of Agriculture as a Century Farm, having operated > > as a working farm by the same family for over 100 years. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > ________________________________________________________________________ > AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free > from AOL at AOL.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.