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*»* tub*,:nk McCarthy Rappahannock Newt Guest Columnist
I first heard of “the merkle” in September 1979.
I had just moved into my house on Route 618 and was having my telephone installed. In the midst of technical telephone talk, the telephone man suddenly interrupted the discussion to ask whether I knew about the merkles” on the ridge behind my house.
There was a note of awe in his voice. I first thought °f people, “THE MERKLES”. I said that I didn’t know them or of them. Then as he went on to say that they came out in early April, and went on to explain and describe the location, weather conditions, and other conditions related
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