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By EUGENE McCARTHY Rappahannock News (iucst Columnist
The power of spare parts as a force in international trade and in the conduct of foreign policy is not fully realized or exploited by our international traders and diplomats. This would not be the case if they were familiar with the ways of Rappahannock County.
Philip Booth, a poet, has written in a poem called “Maine,” “When old cars get retired they go to Maine.” He then describes them “thick as cows in back-lots” and grazing “behind frame bams”.
Obviously Booth was not familiar with Rappahannock County. Not all old cars get retired to Maine. Many end their days here in the county lined up in salvage yards, waiting for another war, or for an order from the Japanese abandoned in thickets, in gulleys, in the yards of farm buildings; some still up on blocks, a sign that hope died slowly; some still resting, empty husks, under the oak branch that held the block and tackle that lifted out the engine to serve another chassis or dismantled for good spare parts.
Old Engines never die a sudden death in Rappahannock, nor do they fade away. They disappear in parts, until only heavy pieces remain, like buffalo bones.
Even those who drive cars of a higher order in the county worry about spare parts. One who has just bought a Mercedes Benz, second hand, assures me that he has a guarantee of spare parts from the German manufacturer.
In the course of a week’s casual reading with spare parts in the back of my
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