Route 9 to Harper’s Ferry

[rayheinrich]

My home! (For 35 years or so.) I was close to crying; if you'd mentioned one more thing -- anything
having to do with apples for instance -- I would have collapsed.  Everything you mentioned, even
the 'spider-lightning', pulled up memories. Now I'm homesick. I hope you're happy. Thanks for the poem.

Extraneous details:

I used to live a 1/4 mile above route 7 about 15 miles west of Washington, D.C.  I regularly took
route 7 through Leesburg and headed up route 9 to visit friends in Mechanicsville. I usually started
out after work Friday and drove back late Sunday evening. I spent many beautiful sunsets and nights
driving that road. My friends had an old wooden dory that they'd brought down when they moved from
Maine (of course) and we used to put it in the Shenandoah at Millville, take it past Harper's Ferry, and
pull it out of the Potomac at Sandy Hook.