Pendleton County, Where you get two bars of signal on the ridge and none in the valley. Where the grocery still traces back to the Franklin IGA Foodliner of 1970. Where ramps season is a season, the same as spring is. Bowers Garage, who will be at the accident just before the fire department. Where there is no hospital, and everyone knows exactly how long it takes to get to Petersburg. Where you can build a home and the only inspection you need is for the septic tank. Spruce Knob, perhaps the closest some of us will get to Heaven. Where a bank chartered in 1852 keeps a branch on Main Street. Where some of the phone numbers start 540, because Virginia is that close. Where the climbing school has been teaching on the same rock since 1971. Where the drive-in at Ruddle is the only movie in town. Where 696 square miles are shared between about six thousand people.