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Meet Your Neighbor
Sandy Hevener has lived in the Blue Grass area for more than 30 years, with her husband Edmund, in a pre Civil War white farm house. They have two children, Amanda and Randolph. In her kitchen there is a secret stair case that looks like a closet, a wood/gas stove in all it's iron glory, and an original cast iron sink.
Hevener is proud to say that she started a flock of sheep 30 years ago, raising purebred Rambouillet and Suffolk. She usually has about 50 ewes in her flock. She also sells crossbred replacement ewes through a Virginia Tech program and is on the Virginia Sheep Industry Board and the Virginia Sheep Association Board.
In addition to taking care of her flock she is a free lance photographer/ writer, county magistrate and gardener.
When asked what she thought was the most obvious change she could see in Highland in the last 30 years, without hesitation she said "the growing season" and how you could not even think about putting anything in the ground before June 1 for fear of frost and you could always count on a frost by early September. That isn't the case so much anymore. (Photo courtesy Risdon Photography)
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