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Mike grew up with the intention of some day owning his own service station. His father, Robert W. (“Buck”) Brown, ran a gas station where the school bus shop is ndw, and moved to Mike’s present location a few years before his death in 1969. Mike at that time was nineteen, too young to run the station himself, so he left the county for several years, staying in Washington, D. C. for a year and Culpeper for several more years. He's glad to be back as a full-time resident and businessman: “I couldn’t think of a better place to live,” Mike said.
And many people in the Washington-Sperryville area are glad he’s here full-time now. Folks know that they can call him if they’re in a jam and he'll do whatever he possibly can to help at any hour of the day or night. Mike’s reputation as a good neighbor ultimately benefits his business but it also makes for a hectic life at times for the Browns. Mike told me a story of something that happened to him recently on a snowy Sunday night. “I knew I had to get up and help some people scrape off their lots
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