The Washington Post, May 24th, 1996
As long as Goodwin Moore is alive there will be no festivals on Clark's Mountain. "Don't need 'em," says the 78-year-old orchardist. "We can't accommodate any more people up here." He admits to being "a little hardheaded," but the numbers speak for themselves. Last year an estimated 140,000 people picked 50,000 bushels of fruit from the trees surrounding Moore's red brick home in Rapidan, Va. And that's without the lure of a hayride to bunnyland. His one concession to progress: a six-mile hiking trail, opened in 1990, that circles his 441-acre hilltop tract. It's now closed. "I don't reckon 10...
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