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Bv SHARON KILPATRICK
KNppHhiinmM'k New* Staff Writer
“The thing I remember the most is my mother and my four sisters crying because we had to leave," David Marshall Dwyer told an overflow crowd at the library at last Friday’s program “Down From the Mountains: the resettlement from the park." Mr. Dwyer, who had just started school at that time, asked his father, "Why do we have to leave if we own our place?"
"I got angry with the Park Service, and I stayed angry for many years," he continued. He said one day years later he was returning to the mountains from Northern Virginia. He had trouble breathing, but the closer he got to the mountains the easier it was to breathe. “I got to thinking how much oxygen an oak tree puts, out and 1 thought maybe it was.a good thing they did that."
Mr. Dwyer was one of three speakers at the First Friday program. He said that his family had a nine room house. He had just started school in the Hull School near Sperryville. He showed a photograph of the school. “It looks like a shack, but it was the focal point of the community. We had dances, preaching and community meetings,” he said.
He said his family raised most of their food. Hxtra meat was salted down or stored outside in the cold where it kept well in
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