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Volume 10 ~ Issue 1
July 22, 2015
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Neighborly News from Middlefield, Parkman, Huntsburg and Surrounding Communities
The Perfect Ice Cream Treat
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By Susan Dacek
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hile enter taining my granddaughters this s u m m e r, I s t u m b l e d upon the Depot in Middlefield. I don’t know if you have ever been there, but it was my first time and boy was I excited to find such a treat. Here’s how it happened. The other day, I was out with my granddaughters picking up a pizza when the oldest one said, “Let’s go to The Depot.” I had never been to the Depot (have you?). We had just picked up hot pizza, so I didn’t think it was the right time to take four little girls for ice cream. This granny would need to find out the facts about The Depot soon because my granddaughters said I could get something called a Little Toot for just a dollar. That sounded intriguing and more like what I was thinking. I had been looking for a place to buy an ice cream cone for a time (l-r) Aggie and Fanny volunteering at the Depot, serving up your favorite treats. (MP Photo/Susan Dacek) now. I know that doesn’t sound like a difficult thing, but I have a list of for a quarter; what a treat. We would stop in was originally the depot for the B&O requirements. I didn’t want to spend a lot there on many occasions. I know Conley’s Railroad. It was built in 1874, had burned of cash since I’m buying for five, so $2.75 is long gone, and that’s what I had in mind. down and rebuilt in 1910. There used to a cone is out. I thought maybe I could So the following Monday, I stopped at be train tracks through the town running find a place selling child’s-size cones, The Depot after work and I walked into a from Painesville to Warren and the caboose but that too was more than I wanted to charming little store that had a counter next to The Depot actually used to run the spend at $1.75 each and I wanted handfrom 1950s. The lady behind the counter, tracks. Aggie’s former husband, Mark Sperry dipped ice cream. “Well go to the grocery Agnes, was not only helpful but after was a lawyer in Middlefield back in the day. store,” you say, “The price is right.” Yes it chatting for a while, I started thinking she As the story goes, the house that is now is, but I would end up eating it all, and could be my “auntie “ or my new best friend. the Historical Society site was going to be honestly it’s not the kind of experience I She and her cohort Fanny have the Monday torn down. Many Middlefield residents was looking for. It was a summer evening afternoon shift and truly they are as caring expressed an interest in preserving it and and I was thinking of stopping for a noas two aunties. A few boys stopped in, and with this goal in mind, Mark Sperry and fuss little treat that didn’t break the bank. I could tell they felt right at home as Aggie several others birthed the Middlefield I can remember about 30 years ago, when and Fanny served up their favorite treats. there was a store in Middlefield called Aggie told me how the building we were Continued on Page 9, Celebrating Business Conley’s. They sold hand-dipped cones
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