Ray Long of Galena: “I was a fire police at the fire company till I had trouble walking and standing, and secretary of the Fire Company for about five years – that’s cause no one else wants it, its one of those kind of deals. It’s quite interesting because you really get to know the town people. Politically they’re very, very, very conservative. You are a foreigner – if you think you are anything other than a foreigner you are really crazy. I remember one time when we went down to Rock Hall for a Lion’s Club meeting. And they had, which was new to me, they had a person down there who had become a physician’s assistant. Never knew what those things were. Evidently they are quite popular now. They introduced him – a young man – as a fifth generation Rock Haller. Now you know what’s important when that’s how you get introduced, right? And I remember the same thing when I was growing up. Usually if somebody introduced you they would say, “that’s so and so’s son or so and so’s daughter.” They wouldn’t just say this is Ray, they just say who you belonged to.”
Submitted by Ronnie Edelman
Editor Note: The Chestertown Spy and RiverArts have partnered in 2016 to share the art organization’s community arts project “Humans of Kent County,” designed to celebrate the wonderful, unique folks who live and work in Kent County. Citizens are invited to interview and photograph from young to old from all corners of the county and to submit a photograph and brief story to be part of the project. It will be posted on the Spy each week and each quarter the most interesting photos and stories will be enlarged and produced for an exhibition at the RiverArts gallery in Chestertown.
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