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fessional guidance to communities with questions.”
Helping PEC meet this challenge has required Whitehouse’s best diplomatic skills, still sharp after several years of retirement. He has been a convincing spokesman, stressing a practical approach to the problems facing Virginia’s Piedmont.
“I think our success is due to a hard-boiled, realistic understanding,” he said. “People don’t expect PEC to embark on frivolous campaigns. And we’ve gained respect locally just because Bob (Bob Dennis, PEC president) and the staff are so dam good.”
Whitehouse is not burdened with the romantic image of farming that characterizes some Piedmont retirees.
“I’ve managed a farm,” he said. “It’s difficult for people in urban communities to understand how desperately hard farmers work, and how much they risk. We might all want a pastoral landscape on one hand: On the other, we can’t expect
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