http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl-v5bKyQQ4">Reach out. I'll be there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kTrkpPXYsM">Coz we all have sorrows. Lean on me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_Fork">I'm in a Slab Fork frame of mind. Read carefully. You'll get it.
The nearest post office, to
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=hotchkiss+%22west+virginia%22">Hotchkiss, which has none, was Slab Fork. The rural postal route we were on was out of Slab Fork, and our bus picked up us Hotchkiss kids first, coming out to the end of the county road to get us, then backtracking to Slab Fork. Blink once,
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?city=Hotchkiss&state=WV&country=us">you'll miss it.
As irony would have it,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah_Hotchkiss">it's not on most maps. But then again, neither was
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire_%28Middle-earth%29">The Shire. Both produced oft-underestimated
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbits">Little Folk, who led blissful lives, with few giving an eye to the greater problems of Middle-Earth; but a few of us have
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Took_clan">Tookish and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandybucks">Brandybuck blood, and that craves Elvishy adventures, and will not be denied.
Slab Fork has a dip in the road that our bus driver took just the right way, every day, to provide a poor child's roller coaster, no coin required.
O8) :bounce: :evilgrin:
I usually had my nose stuck in a book (e.g., The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, or The Diary of Anne Frank), but all reading stopped for "the daily bounce." Hands up! No holding on to the seat in front of you! That's cheating!
roll, bounce, Roll
And: :hug:
- Dave
P.S. I'm so glad you're on the West Coast. Coz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlAgwd5JGPo">ain't no Sunshine When She's Gone.
P.P.S. The
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22slab+fork+coal%22">Slab Fork Coal Co. employed my father and both my grandfathers. The
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Caperton">grandfather of former West Virginia Governor William Gaston Caperton III owned the mines that literally broke the backs of my forefathers. Yet Governor Caperton and I have broken bread together, when he taught at the Harvard K School, after he was term limited out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Caperton#Post-gubernatorial_career">When a fellow Mountaineer is stuck in Cambridge or Boston, it's only right that hospitality be extended, family histories and party labels be damned.
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