EverGreene, by Air: July 1, 2008
Thank you Tom, and Linda, for the wonderful opportunity! Words can not begin to express the emotions that will be forever tied with that short, flight. If ever the opportunity were to arise again, I would be ready!
The old peanut silo's in downtown Zuni. Hazy due to the sunlight reflecting on the Piper's plexiglass window…
By the 1700s, there were shops and houses. When the railroad was built in the 1850s, the village moved to the other side of the tracks around a Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad stop.
From September 1862 to March 1863, skirmishes between Confederate and Union troops took place in Zuni and the surrounding area, and Confederate troops were stationed at Zuni to protect a railroad bridge and the road leading to Suffolk. After the Civil War, it became a farm-based community with a thriving peanut industry.
On Nov. 22, 1963 - the day President Kennedy was assassinated —the peanut factory caught fire, and the village has been a bedroom community ever since…
