60- SQUIRE LONGS TO SEE A MONADNOCK, AGAIN....

A monanock is a small mountain that sits alone out and away from any nearby physical features, usually a plain. People who love and appreciate geography find them visually fascinating and have done so for centuries. This avid researcher, historian and photogapher of my native Virginia grew up in the Shenandoah Valley around two monadnocks, Betsy Bell and Mary Grey. Those names came from the Scotch-Ulster settlers coming into the historic valley in the 1660s.
I also have fallen in like with the Monadnock region in New England's New Hampshire. People, way back, have always sensed that a monadnock, seen from far away, represents a unique mystical feeling.
Next time you travel I-64 or neighbor Rte. 250, past Charlottesville (C-Ville), West, up and over the Blue Ridge Mountains past Waynesboro and into the Shenandoah ("Daughter of the Stars"), you can see immediately Betsy Bell and Mary Grey halfway across the Valley and rising above the surrounding plain. As a matter of fact, Betsy Bell Mt.'s summit is a city park in Staunton.
Yes, the Squire longs to see the New Hampshire monadnock region and the two in the Valley. Have you noticed, maybe, that our Tidewater region is void of mountains, but that we do have so many other neat natural features not in the mountains. I'm sure, also, that just in America alone there are many more monadnocks waiting to be noticed. Now, you know what a monadnock is.....