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Log inJonesport woman's sweet secret got out, a nation responded
Jonesport woman's sweet secret got out, a nation responded
by Outspoken on Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:27 am
When a Jonesport woman's sweet secret got out, a nation responded
By Eric Russell
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
JONESPORT, Maine - Elizabeth Emerson has never had much use for the extravagant.
Her only real indulgence in 87 years — all of them spent in coastal Washington County — has been the occasional chocolate bar.
But when she revealed that sweet secret recently to a New York Times reporter, she wasn’t prepared for the pseudocelebrity treatment that followed.
After a story appeared in the Times depicting the winter hardships of low-income elderly people, including Emerson, letters started arriving in her mailbox from all over the country, some with individual bars of chocolate inside.
The biggest cache of all came in mid-December when she received an assortment from the Hershey headquarters in Pennsylvania along with a personal note from its community relations department.
"I couldn’t believe it. I laughed more than anything. All that fuss over little old me," Emerson said Saturday from her Jonesport home, an oceanfront bungalow her husband built 59 years ago. The house, shielded from the main road by a small row of trees, is a reflection of Emerson herself: simple, warm and full of life.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=159159&zoneid=500
(Bangor Daily News/John Clarke Russ)
By Eric Russell
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
JONESPORT, Maine - Elizabeth Emerson has never had much use for the extravagant.
Her only real indulgence in 87 years — all of them spent in coastal Washington County — has been the occasional chocolate bar.
But when she revealed that sweet secret recently to a New York Times reporter, she wasn’t prepared for the pseudocelebrity treatment that followed.
After a story appeared in the Times depicting the winter hardships of low-income elderly people, including Emerson, letters started arriving in her mailbox from all over the country, some with individual bars of chocolate inside.
The biggest cache of all came in mid-December when she received an assortment from the Hershey headquarters in Pennsylvania along with a personal note from its community relations department.
"I couldn’t believe it. I laughed more than anything. All that fuss over little old me," Emerson said Saturday from her Jonesport home, an oceanfront bungalow her husband built 59 years ago. The house, shielded from the main road by a small row of trees, is a reflection of Emerson herself: simple, warm and full of life.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=159159&zoneid=500
(Bangor Daily News/John Clarke Russ)
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Plato (427-347 BC)
Plato (427-347 BC)
