Shenandoah Breakdown

November, 1971

Shenandoah BreakdownYou turn at the fruit stand on Route 7. The country road curls slowly downward through wooded east Virginia hills to the Shenandoah River. Ridges of rock poke their backs through thin topsoil in the scattered fields, and to be knee high by the Fourth of July, the corn crop will have to double its size in two days.The road abruptly becomes a gooey mix of tar and dust and gravel, twists with the land through a few final bends and spills out onto a 40-acre patch of bottom land b...