Pendleton County, Where you wave at the truck coming the other way, whoever is driving it. Where Mass is at noon on Sunday, and that is the whole schedule. Where you can build a home and the only inspection you need is for the septic tank. Where maple syrup runs faster than the handyman, and more reliably too. Where the library shuts on Sunday and Monday, and nobody minds. Where the lime company has been working the Germany Valley stone for over fifty years. Where the snow shuts the school before the radio gets round to saying so. Oakwood Estates, where the rocks in the road are bigger than your truck. Where you get two bars of signal on the ridge and none in the valley. Where Fort Seybert is a place, a date, and a thing people still bring up. Where the maple sap starts running around the tenth of January. Where Covid was something the city slickers made up.