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Walking article writer
passed through the area
THE PLAINS AND SPERRYVILLE were among stops made by Peter Gorton Jenkins during the first phase of his planned walking tour of the United States, an account of which appears in the April issue of the National Geographic. Jenkins began his trek in Alfred, N.Y., heading South through Pennsylvania, and traversing this area before heading over into the Valley at Charlottesville.
There isn’t anything in the text, however, about the local stops, and a photograph taken in The Plains, printed full-page in color, doesn’t particularly advertise the community—it’s a closeup shot of turning maple leaves; that’s all, just a couple of leaves. Charlottesville didn’t fare any better, pictorially; a picture taken there is also a closeup of a leaf, in a gutter. Jenkins relates that he started his trip as a recent college graduate disillusioned with the United States. By the time he finished, he had an entirely different outlook. “I haven’t gone a day,” he says, “that someone I met hasn’t been kind, or thoughtful, or helpful. Plain! simple, ordinary folks they may be but they’re heroes to me.”—R.E.D.
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