Anna Scott Cole will close Scottie’s Shoe Store and Newsstand at the end of the month — but her 39 years in business on High Street will be remembered forever — as Mayor Margo Bailey declared Saturday May 24, 2013 “Anna Scott Cole Day in Chestertown.”
“You provided a place for people to come and get their papers everyday…a place for people to gather and talk,” Bailey told Anna at a quite party at Scottie’s on Friday.
“You went through some trying times,” Bailey told Anna. “But you always prevailed because of your steadiness of character and personality. This town will always be indebted to you for what you’ve given to us.”
Bailey said in her proclamation that Scottie’s served as the “unofficial” visitor’s center “for all who come to Chestertown.”
Bailey presented Anna with a key to the city for her 65 years on High Street, which started with her first job at Fox’s Five and Dime Store — to opening Scottie’s Shoe Store and Newsstand in 1973.
Bailey called Anna’s years running the newsstand “a public service.”
In the video below, long-time friends joined with council members to celebrate Anna’s longevity and offer humorous recollections of life at the newsstand.
The video is just over 12 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2o5kCrzDAE#at=18
Stephan Sonn says
Something needs to fill the void, as if anything could.
FLETCHER R. HALL says
Well deserved and certainly appropriate.
Times move on. Faces and places change.
Memories linger, enhancing the human spirit.
Fletcher R. Hall
Chestertown
Jim says
God Bless you Miss Anna. Thank you for your many years of hard work and dedication. We will miss you!
Skip Middleton says
Ahh the newsstand… I remember the quiet excitement when I was a youngster in the 70’s walking in, smelling all the newsprint, and going straight for the comic books, walking around the others grabbing a NY paper…smaller kids eagerly looking at the variety of candies not found elsewhere, baseball cards and the like. Every bit a golden memory and smell and as exciting as walking into the library (the old one of course) or the old toy section of Fox’s, or Stam’s, or the Western Auto. I miss old Chestertown, the memories, the kind people, the wondering if there was a catfish in the fountain, the ability to come to town and hit a real sidewalk with my skateboard, find the newest Superman, and grab a root beer float at Stam’s…. I’ll miss that place, but it lives eternally in my fond memories of Chestertown…