Re: CULT: avoiding roots (was Swingtown)

Oh Linda!  If you only knew what's happening to our lovely valley
neighborhood.  That "open field" is part of Jack Nicholaus'"The Cliffs at
Walnut Cove," an 18-hole golf course with the surrounding hills cut into lots
selling for $250,000 and up.  On Ball "Mountain" just across the road from us
the highest lots are priced at a full million.  We hear rumors there will be
hotels, restaurants and condos in addition to the mountain lots.  Our poor,
crooked Avery Creek Road is simply crumbling from the heavy construction and
ten-wheeler truck traffic.

The other morning the angle of the sun, the cold, clear air and the leafless
trees combined to reveal progress on another development due west of us called
"Avery Park"--the entrance to which has a locked gate.  What had been wild,
untamed woods not long ago suddenly is dotted with brand new houses all over
the slopes.

The owners of the properties across from us and west of us have had offers on
their lands from the golf course developers.  My step-son who owns the
property we live on said he was going to find a bunch of old refrigerators and
car bodies to set out on the front lawn.  He was joking, of course, but the
day will come when he, too, will be hearing from "The Cliffs,"  car bodies or
not. He has no intention of selling, though.

We are feeling increasingly uncomfortable here--million dollar homes are not
exactly our style.

I'm afraid that "open field" is not exactly available even though there isn't
a Crepe Myrtle (or an iris) in sight.

Neil Mogensen  z 7 in the once wild mountains of western NC

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