From a friend, to a friend… Let not your heart be troubled…...

Seriously? Deep in Virginia, there is a little farm listed in the National Park Service. It gets no Federal money, funded by private endowment since 1980. Daily, volunteers dedicated to a kinder, gentler life dress in period costume and tend a farm replicated to 1771. They dip beeswax candles, mull cider, make apple butter and teach civic, church and school groups of children what life was like when this country was about to be born. Tuesday, the National Park Service showed up with police officers and physically ordered all the volunteers off the premises, and had the animals removed. No amount of pleading by their volunteers nor Board of Directors was heard. The logic that it was costing the NPS more to chase the volunteers away than the NPS had expended for their existence in 32 years fell on deaf ears. Why? Because logic and reasoning are as unwelcome on federal property as we are.