BY C. ROBERT WEISFELD
Special to the Washington County News
ABINGDON, Va. — Speaking of history, a retiree who didn’t return our call grew up in a house about where the original Shoney’s once stood. It looked out on Green Spring Road — back when the area had a choice of open fields where neighborhood children played. Sounds like ancient history, right?
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C. Robert Weisfeld is a freelance writer living in Abingdon, Virginia. Contact him at news@washconews.com.
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