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Montpelier Post Office & General Store building Jim puts eloquent voice to everyone's concerns about recent news (Letter: Montpelier General Store) By JIM In my nigh onto three-score and ten trips around the sun, I've learned a few -- perhaps painfully few -- things, one of which is that change occurs: sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse, sometimes of a necessity. The latter-named occasions this letter about the Montpelier Post Office and General Store building at Montpelier being razed. It had sadly been neglected for ages, the timbers and siding are so old it would take scarcely a spark to create an inferno within seconds. My mind gets that. My heart doesn't. The grand old structure has been a landmark for all my years and many years beyond. For decades, the store served as the business and secular center for miles around, and in the fashion of the times, it carried everything from brogans to buckboards. And too, in the days before star route mail delivery, even those who had neither money to spend nor goods to barter would come in hopes of having received a letter from some kinsman in a distant state or a nearby county. If no mail awaited, word-of-mouth news always awaited -- birthings, buryings, elopements, folks moving away from or into the community, or a coming revival or an all day singing at nearby Mt. Pleasant, Liberty, Pleasant Hill, or White Oak Church. Without a doubt, my great-grandparents and grandparents went there, as did my mother as a little girl and teenager in the 19-teens and early 1920s, then as a young wife, and all too soon afterward, as a young widow and Mom. (I've often wondered if she and Carl, her first husband, first met or perhaps trysted there after their courtship began; Mother was only fifteen when they married.) She knew every postmaster from Luther Williams, who departed in 1917, through the last one, "Miss" Willie Collins. Just as certainly, my brother, born 1927, went there frequently during the 1930s and early 1940s, as he often stayed with his (our) Wheat grandparents as well as with his Helm grandparents, who lived a bit closer to Montpelier. The Wheats lived about mile north (cutting across fields and streams), no farther away than the corner of the block for a young lad of that era. And I, a relative latecomer to the scene, would stop there occasionally in the 1970s and early '80s to buy a cold drink and talk with Miss Willie and whomever else might be around. Yes, my mind accepts the necessity, but in my heart, the old post office and general store building will forever stand, and I'll never pass by there that the generations served don't come to mind. This story was posted on 2020-04-25 08:24:49
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