In the spirit of Asheville has hair:

It’s not that there aren’t adults anywhere else, because I’ve certainly met, worked with and learned from some grown people licensed as such.  It is that in this particular place–and likely also in some places I haven’t yet been–the adults are the ones who pertain to the young people.  There are at least two generations, sometimes three or more, in families that live here as a part of each others’ regular lives.  And people do move back here–which is, as one adult here has testified, significant for a rural area.  Rural places are usually the places we leave.

More granular observations can be found in the photos at left.  More writing will surely come during the five months I’ll be living and teaching in the area.  But this morning holds:

Road.