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Article: The Roanoke Times, Va., Joe Kennedy column: Spring waters quench thirst and cleanse the palate of life.
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- The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2006
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Byline: Joe Kennedy
Sep. 23--VILLAMONT -- It took a while early Thursday afternoon for anybody to show up at the Villamont spring, but that just made the little stone platform a comfortable place to sit and jot some thoughts about life as we know it.
The water poured steadily through the white plastic pipe stuck in the stone wall topped by the date 1938.
The spring is even older than that. People have been getting water from the unapproved source forever, it seems. I knew if I sat there long enough, somebody would come by.
I had scrawled five stanzas of rhyming couplets when James Joe walked into the frame with a plastic bag containing ...
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