PICNIC IN TODD AND SUSIE’S PASTURE
This is one of the reasons that I moved to Marshall. I am discovering a new world in which everyone lives in rural hollows (hollers) of the Appalachian mountains, people who have abandoned city life for a life of cabins with their own springs or wells, heated by firewood and surrounded by woods with large gardens threatened by deer and groundhogs. It is a life midway between urban Asheville and the lives or old timers like Earl whom Susie and I met on Saturday.
I was left out of the conversation which was about neighbors and how they were doing and the Republican politics of Madison County. It was a beautiful golden evening. We drank beer and wine and smoked and relaxed and celebrated rural community life.
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 