[Congressman Billybob]

Your mention of The Last of the Mohicans reminded me to share a story with you. Almost ten years ago, I went to the Asheville Airport to bring home a friend of mine who was visiting from D.C.

We stopped to get sodas and crackers at a quick mart at Toxaway Dam, that's halfway between the Airport and my home. As we walked in the store, it was crowded with "local people" dressed in usual fashion. Then I noticed that these "locals" were wearing buckskin boots or shoes, and some of them were carrying flintlock rifles. We were surrounded by the extras from The Last of the Mohicans who were taking a break from shooting a scene on the bluffs above the Toxaway River.

There's actually a fairly active film industry in Western Carolina. And one documentary broadcast on Georgia Public Television was shot outside and inside my home. It was From my Grandmother's Grandmother to Me.

You're right. It is beautiful territory in these parts.

John / Billybob

[Carolinamom]

I like your type of campaigning...going where the people are and seeing the problems up close. You'll make the kind of Congressman that NC will be proud of. (I'm lucky to be surrounded by farms...cotton, wheat, horses, breeding cattle farms (manure smells don't bother LOL)...although close enough to drive to towns.

My children grew up working on surrounding farms in the summers and although they're now college graduates and in tech jobs, they have the highest respect for farmers, for they (kids) learned first hand the amount of work that goes into producing that good food they eat.)