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ened by the new. A resident of western Loudoun County, Holland inherited her mother’s small cabin, quit her job in Philadelphia and moved into the Blue Ridge Mountains with only her cat for company.
In Bingo Night at the Firehall, Holland tells of being a newcomer in an old land of dairies and orchards, a scenic place with a rich history sadly losing ground to subdivisions and four-lane highways. Noting that the author is a part-time writer of obituaries on a local weekly newspaper, The New York Times reviewer called her book “an eloquent first draft of a death notice she hopes never to complete—that of a rural way of life endangered by the suburban sprawl of nearby Washington.”
In a chapter on city verses country ways of eating, for example, Holland writes that she now lives “beyond the bean sprouts barrier;” where such urban fads as bean sprouts and tofu have not penetrated. Lunching at the local diner, where if it’s Thursday it’s meat loaf, she tells of the waitress putting down a plate of the daily special and asking, “Anything else?”
“Else? Massive slabs of meat loaf tilt over the plate’s edge, elbowed by half a pound
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