Pendleton County, Where dark still means dark, and the stars are why people stop the car. Where some of the phone numbers start 540, because Virginia is that close. Where the hardware store, the bank and the courthouse are all on the same street. Where the ramps come up in April and the whole county smells of them. Where a gravel road is not a lesser road. Where the person who plows your road is someone you know by name. Where the Forest Service campground looks straight across at the Rocks. Oakwood Estates, where the rocks in the road are bigger than your truck. Where the grocery still traces back to the Franklin IGA Foodliner of 1970. Where somebody’s cattle will be in the road, and it will be fine. Where the teachers know every student by name, in the whole county. Bowers Garage, who will be at the accident just before the fire department.