{"id":516,"date":"2008-06-09T13:25:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T20:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2008-06-09T13:25:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T20:25:46","slug":"road-trip-the-headwaters-of-the-dan-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Road trip: The headwaters of the Dan River"},"content":{"rendered":"

wshire-like-scene-june-9.JPG<\/a>
\nNear Westfield on N.C. 89<\/em><\/p>\n

The Dan River begins in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. The area includes Stokes and Surry counties in North Carolina and Patrick County in Virginia. I took a little road trip through this area today. It was hot, but I just couldn’t take another day of sitting inside with the air conditioning running. The Jeep has no air conditioner, but it’s nice and cool if you take the windows out and keep moving.<\/p>\n

wwroute-june-9.jpg<\/a>
\nThe Dan River headwaters in Google Earth<\/em><\/p>\n

wfarmstead-june-9.JPG<\/a>
\nA farmstead near Claudville, Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n

woutbuilding-june-9.JPG<\/a>
\nOutbuilding near Claudville, Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n

wcherries-june-9.JPG<\/a>
\nA cherry tree near Claudville, Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n

wwhite-church-june-9.JPG<\/a>
\nA church near Claudville, Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n

wtheology-june-9.JPG<\/a>
\nTheological innovation near Westfield, North Carolina. If you can’t read it, the sign says “Chestnut Ridge Progressive Primitive Baptist Church.”<\/em><\/p>\n

wacres-of-yard-art-june-9.JPG<\/a>
\nArtistic innovation — a yard art factory near Mount Airy, North Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n

wjewelweed-june-9.JPG<\/a>
\nButterfly weed near Claudville, Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n

wbig-poplar-june-9.JPG<\/a>
\nA majestic poplar, as big as an oak, near Francisco, North Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n

wcottage-june-9.JPG<\/a>
\nA cottage on Virginia Route 103<\/em><\/p>\n

wcottage-2-june-9.JPG<\/a>
\nA cottage on N.C. 8 near the Virginia line.<\/em><\/p>\n

wbig-bales-june-9.JPG<\/a>
\nHay work is going on everywhere right now. With the price of grain sky high, the hay must be really valuable to the local farmers. These days, most of the hay goes into big, industrial-size bales.<\/em><\/p>\n

wregular-bales-june-9.JPG<\/a>
\nStill, some people still make old-fashioned hayride bales, and boys still learn how to do it.<\/em><\/p>\n

wno-hayride-june-9.JPG<\/a>
\nThe big ones would be useless for hayride<\/em>s!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Near Westfield on N.C. 89 The Dan River begins in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. The area includes Stokes and Surry counties in North Carolina and Patrick County in Virginia. I took a little road trip through this area today. It was hot, but I just couldn’t take another day of … Continue reading “Road trip: The headwaters of the Dan River”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rural-issues","category-stokes-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}