Always lots of hot weather in August.
Glad there's no big fighting to be done just now.

But it's a pity, isn't it, to tear up a fine farming country like this.

Around here is where the United States started.

John Smith and Rolfe and Pocahontas and the rest of them may have roamed just where this orchard stands.

And later on lots of the great Americans rode about these parts, some of the younger ones carrying their beautiful ladies on pillions behind them.
You are a cold-blooded New Englander, Warner, and you believe that anyone fighting against you ought to burn forever, but as for me I feel sorry for Virginia.