Pendleton County, Where the hardware store, the bank and the courthouse are all on the same street. Where the deer are a hazard, a full freezer, and a conversation. Where the snow shuts the school before the radio gets round to saying so. Where somebody’s cattle will be in the road, and it will be fine. Where you get two bars of signal on the ridge and none in the valley. Where a gravel road is not a lesser road. Where the highest point in West Virginia is somewhere you can drive to. Where you wave at the truck coming the other way, whoever is driving it. Where one of the campgrounds costs nothing and asks nothing of you either. Where Starlink is the only service that works, on Tuesday at 2:41 in the afternoon. Bowers Garage, who will be at the accident just before the fire department. Where the garden goes in when the ground says so, not when the calendar does.