Pendleton County, Where dark still means dark, and the stars are why people stop the car.Where the person who plows your road is someone you know by name.Where the ramps come up in April and the whole county smells of them.Where you get two bars of signal on the ridge and none in the valley.Where the maple sap starts running around the tenth of January.Where the fire department is volunteers who left their own supper to come.Where the hardware store, the bank and the courthouse are all on the same street.Where one of the campgrounds costs nothing and asks nothing of you either.Where the trout farm will oblige if the creek will not.Where there is a cidery, a distillery, and a trail that joins them up.Where your phone loses signal somewhere along the way, and you stop minding.Where 696 square miles are shared between about six thousand people.

Germany Valley in autumn

Pendleton County, West Virginia

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