Pendleton County, Spruce Knob, perhaps the closest some of us will get to Heaven. Where the highest point in West Virginia is somewhere you can drive to. Where the county clinic will see you the same day if you are sick. Where a filling station has a bakery, and the pepperoni rolls are the reason you stopped. Where the fire department is volunteers who left their own supper to come. Where the climbing school has been teaching on the same rock since 1971. Where you wave at the truck coming the other way, whoever is driving it. Where the ground rises and falls further than in any other county in the state. Korner Shop Cafe in Franklin, where you are sure to run into someone you know. Where the iPhone only really became a thing in 2025. Where "directly" means in a little while, and everybody is content with that. Where a bank chartered in 1852 keeps a branch on Main Street.