The Farm By Linda Cunningham Fluharty       ©1995

The dirt road off Route 250, near Littleton, West Virginia, that leads to the farm probably has a name, but I've never known what it is. It runs along the right side of a creek --We say "crick"-- that is a branch of the Jacob River. It used to be a main road back in the horse-and-buggy days when there were farms all around and Littleton wasn't a ghost town. But now the only people who live in the few shacks on the way out to the farm are ones who were born and raised in these hills and have probably never wanted to be anywhere else.

[To be published in an upcoming book.]