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memory that day. All arrived back at Johnson’s Cabin a little tired, but safe and sound.

Up Pignut Mountain

One brilliant autumn day in October of‘ninety-eight

We hiked an old mountain road with cousins from Washington state.

It was Dinah and Woody’s first trip ever to Virginia.

Yet, their mother, Mick, had been here,

Several times, and returning with stories of her hardy mountain kin.

Of the places they’d lived, at least that’s where she’d been.

Even writing about her adventures in “The Haze of the Blue Ridge,”

Kept the errant child's attention and always on the edge.

High up on Pignut Mountain to the old Beahm estate,

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