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To the editor:
You did it again! You forgot that you have two (at least) groups of readers. People in one group know about farming, fishing, hunting, bushhogging and groundhogs. (Do you remember them?)
They know that Fodderstack Road is the scenic route between Washington and Flint Hill even though that fact is nowhere recorded on road sign nor map. People in this group typically were born here and gained their knowledge at birth. They also know where to find FT Valley and what a fluffer is.
People in the other group are folk like me. We have lived here, say, less than 30 or 40 years. Some of us have learned some things, of course. I, for example, recently learned from a neighbor what “spotlighting” is. (I read it in Mr. James J. Kilpatrick’s journal in the Washington Post.) But we will never know everything, either individually or collectively.
“What’s the issue?” you say. Well, the issue is that in a recent issue you reported on two things that I don’t quite understand. I say that it’s your job to instruct me on these matters, not the Washington Post’s.
For example, you reported that a man was fined for “shoot with unplugged gun.” Now “unplugged” is the opposite of “plugged” and one would think that a plugged gun
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