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Article: 'Little Tiny Universe' Is Rapidly Expanding; Church Road Was the 'Country'; Now It's A Harbinger of Change in This Urban County
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- The Washington Post
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- September 22, 2005
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Oden Bowie once woke up to the sound of livestock and birds. From
his ancestral home, Fairview, he could see an endless expanse of
emerald grass and rolling hills that stretched to Church Road. His
neighbors were close friends with whom he hunted quail and rabbits.
Today "the sounds of cows and woodpeckers have been replaced by
nail guns and trucks going, beep, beep, beep when they back out at
6:30 in the morning," his daughter Ambler Bowie Slabe says, shaking
her head.
From his porch, Bowie, who is 90, now sees an endless expanse of
housing subdivisions in various stages of construction. A descendant
of the family after whom the city is named, he watches trucks come
with cement and ...