Pendleton County, Where a motel office is inside the pizza place next door. Where Mass is at noon on Sunday, and that is the whole schedule. Where Covid was something the city slickers made up. Where the gym is open at three in the morning, if three in the morning is when you are up. Where a good spring is worth more than a good well. Where nobody is quite certain what a baker's dozen is, and nobody has needed to be. Where the courthouse is the fourth one, because the third burned along with most of Main Street. Where a bank chartered in 1852 keeps a branch on Main Street. Where a gravel road is not a lesser road. Where the size of a woodpile is a weather forecast. Where the teachers know every student by name, in the whole county. Where a road named after a creek will follow the creek.