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family had movedl to Rixeyville. ‘‘It was a whole different world in those days. We’d never even heard of electricity. We’d never even heard of indoor plumbing. We had an old johnny house out back and an old Sears and Roebuck catalog. You know what I mean!” he recalled, punctuating his hearty laugh with a slap on the knee.
“There were no paved roads in the county, not even a gravel road, just muddy wagon trails. There was a stage that ran from Luray to Sperryville but except for that, if you didn’t own a horse, you walked!
“My father was a farmer. He was paid SO cents a day for his work and back then, from sun-up to sun-down was considered a day. Poor people—and my father was one of the poor people — didn’t take newspapers. Only the rich people could take papers. Poor people knew what was happening in their own neighborhoods and that was about all.’’
So in 1902, a friend walked from Luray to Rixeyville to bring word to the Dennis family that a tannery had opened on the other side of the mountain. The new business was paying SI a day, he reported.
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