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not like now when there’s a drought almost every summer."
Modern times have made almost everyone skeptical of the old-timey ways of forecasting weather. No one we spoke to would have wanted to “go down to the courthouse and swear" to the accuracy of the old signs, and one man even refused to talk about them for fear he’d be held responsible for their truth. Most people were like Elisabeth Johnson of Sperryville, wife of farmer and orchardist C. E. Ned Johnson Jr. She has heard all
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