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<\/a>Continuing our tour for art lovers of a rural bent…not six blocks away from the pigs a chic coffee house displays paintings from area artists. And there in a prominent place next to the door hangs this portrait. Wooz would say she has kind eyes.<\/p>\nI should say \u201chung this portrait\u201d. Since I first saw this painting two weeks ago it had been sold. Next thing you know they\u2019ll be raising V-Gardens around here.<\/p>\n
David<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"…but then you know the old saying. It wasn\u2019t that long ago that today\u2019s over-populated Washington suburbs were wonderful, if not terribly productive, farmland. Even up to 40 years ago, super malls like Tyson\u2019s Corner had to demolish barns and feed stores to make way for the likes of Bloomingdales and multi-tier parking garages. Still the old day\u2019s and ways are not forgotten. Driving down the main street in Falls Church recently I noticed a statue of a farmer feeding his pigs. Investigation informed me that the statue was erected by the family of mega auto dealer Don Beyer in 1985. Seems the Beyers started out raising pigs on a farm in nearby McLean…which is home to Tyson\u2019s Corner by the way. The Beyers certainly got out of pigs at the right time but they weren\u2019t about to forget their roots! So this tribute to their humble beginnings stands on West Broad where all the city folk can admire and take their pictures. Continuing our tour for art lovers of a rural bent…not six blocks away from the pigs a chic coffee house displays paintings from area artists. And there in a prominent place next to the door hangs this portrait. Wooz would say she has kind eyes. I should say \u201chung this portrait\u201d. Since I first saw this painting two weeks ago it had been sold. Next thing you know they\u2019ll be raising V-Gardens around here. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5368,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions\/5368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Driving down the main street in Falls Church recently I noticed a statue of a farmer feeding his pigs. Investigation informed me that the statue was erected by the family of mega auto dealer Don Beyer in 1985.<\/p>\n