Quotes from grown-up Dickeyville Kids

Quotes from previous Dickeyville residents who spent their childhoods in the village during the 1940s - 2000s. Please note, initials correspond to previous authors listed in longer memoirs:

Oh Dickeyville, Dickeyville, there's never been a place like you before, and again, never will!  LGW

She’s like an old best friend that you know will always be there if you need her.  Joy, magic, love and friendship.  Warm and welcoming.  Dickeyville is part of my heart and soul; you all are part of the fabric that makes it so special and meaningful.  God bless you all and God bless our childhood. Dickeyviile rocks!!  JGW

A place where all our stories began, the place we still call home.  MG

Yes, we were part of something unique, the incredible life-experience of growing up in good old Dickeyville.  MG

Growing up in Dickeyville was absolutely magical.  We shared our wonder years, our weddings and even some funerals over the years.  Life has separated many of us, however, I am sure that you will all agree that our friends from that time, will be friends forever…even if we haven’t seen each other in 50 years! KGK 

I feel we all shared in growing up in what I consider a charmed neighborhood.  TCB 

The best of my childhood is Dickeyville. Dickeyville gave all of us the best time to grow up. LHP 

I'm glad I could have this time to remember a wonderful childhood in Dickeyville! KKM

We certainly all have many many memories of this special place and time in our lives! LW

I am fond of telling folks who ask about my upbringing that Norman Rockwell had nothing on our experiences growing up. RL

I didn’t know I was so insulated. There was nowhere to go. And anyway who would have wanted to leave? PSM 

Even many years later making adult pilgrimages back to the neighborhood, I would search for, and be gratified to find, the same cobblestones inviting me to walk on them, repeating a comforting ritual.  It is an assurance to me that this special place is still here.  PSM

Linda Gibbons said it just right calling our village a Christmas garden. Maybe we all need a Dickeyville snow globe.  ASC

"I grew up in Dickeyville. And I'd move back there in a minute, if I could ever win an argument with my husband. It's Baltimore's Brigadoon, a place that even some diehard, bread-and-buttered Baltimoreans might not be able to locate on a map. It feels remote and secluded, yet it can't be more than three miles to the interstate. I learned to ice skate there. I also learned how to survive after plunging through thin ice and having to claw my way to the creek bank, my blades trying to find traction in the muddy bottom of the Gwynns Falls. What other life skills do you really need?”  Laura Lippman in an interview with Karl Merton Ferron, The Baltimore Sun

“Making this your rendezvous is like a full career”  Henry Sandlass, lyric from The Dickeyville Revue