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THE Nation’s Bicentennial birthday is reaching an official climax this weekend, and amid all the fireworks and festivities there should also be room for sober reflection. Since this newspaper’s special concern is the beautiful Northern Piedmont area of Virginia, it seems only appropriate torefleet upon what the Bicentennial year means to this beautiful countryside, and its pros - pects for surviving much longer as a clean, inspiring, productive environment.
While the nation marks its 200th birthday, Virginia has really been “home” to Western culture for some 300 years, and as one conservationist has noted, much of this beautiful country has remained essentially unchanged during that entire period. It was immediately molded as a North American adaptation of an English countryside, complete to conveniently located towns and villages, and then enjoyed and utilized with few major changes since. Even a bloody war left it largely unmarked. Technical innovations such as the railroad merely served to
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