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County 'Man in Teheran
Sings of Homesickness
In a letter from the American Embassy, Elgin Groseclose writes back to Rappahannock county with a tune that smacks a wee bit of homesickness. He states that he misses his home in the county and is looking forward to the day he can return.
Mr. and Mrs. Groseclose and their daughters were at “Trianon,” adjoining Robert Mercer Menefee’s “San Jacinto”, only a few months before h(e was called for duty in Teheran.
“Much to my delight and surprise, the Rappahannock News has been arriving regularly,” Mr. Groseclose reports to the county paper, “(with only a flew lost copies) since our coming to this land, and I always open it with interest to get the news of the town of which 1 am beginning t» feel very much a citisen—evfen though not a qualified voter.”
(As soon as Mr. Groseclose returns, he will have to answer if he made that statement so he couldn’t be blamed for the allwoman government.)
“Since arriving here, our family has traveled some two thousand miles in our Ford station wagon, through southern' Iran, where I have been studying village and agricultural conditions. Needless to say I have found no village for which I would trade Washington, Ve., but I have met a number of progressive landovqpers who have been much interested in what we are doing in America to develop the land. Land here, as you know, is farmed around a supply of water, which is generally brought down from the mountains in underground channels, and consequently the farming is done from villages built around the water courses. The entire village in orpnpfftllv t>ha> nmnarfv nf oama
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