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home;. It is also an auraciion for visitors from the nearby state park. Despite their disdain for interviewers, the sisters recognize the practical advantages of their recent national publicity: “We get a lot more trade that way, for one thing, and people come from the park.” There is no phone at the farmhouse. ‘‘They won’t bring us no phone here, ‘less we pay ‘way up yonder,” said one woman with a sweep of her hand. “So,” she continued, pointing to a CB radio, “that’s how we get out”
Next to TV and magazine people, their worst pests are groundhogs and deer. The postman counted 72 deer at one time. The ladies seem to have lost their appreciation of the beauty of deer, and favor a proposed doe season. “I hope they do,” said one. “I hope they do, and blast away at them.” She deals with the groundhogs herself, with a shotgun.
Despite the ravages of four-legged pests, the farmland appears productive. The fields and pastures are fertile-looking and well-kept. Rocks are stacked into neat, cubical piles. There are virtually none of the bare spots or weeds characteristic of pastures back home
Obviously, this land is sensitively managed — the soil is stable and healthy. But the amazing thing is the extreme steepness. Here are pastures on precipitous slopes, yet they look much better than the pastures in the rolling farm country at home.
The sisters’ farm worker, a late-middle-aged man named Rosy, agreed with me. He said descriptively: “Well I’ve been clean over to the Blue Ridges of Virginia and 1
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