[GreenKeys] FW: RE: Speaking of AT&T facilities...

[Duncan M. Brown]

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 --Duncan


> > [Original Message]
> > From: Charles <charlesmorris800 at centurytel.net>
> > To: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
> > Date: 09-Jan-09 22:41:38
> > Subject: [GreenKeys] Speaking of AT&T facilities...
> >
> > ... does anyone know what that "AT&T" place on Short Hill Mountain
> > (Lovettsville), VA is?
> >
> > I used to own 30 wooded acres on the other side of Short Hill
> > directly across the hilltop, and it just showed on the plat as
> > "AT&T". The realtor who sold me the lot told me I should not go
> > hiking up there because he had done so and found there was a
> > barbed wire fence, containing mean guard dogs and even meaner
> > armed guards! of course he was a major league BSer so who knows.
> >
> > One day I got curious and drove around to the other side, where
> > there was a large AT&T roadsign. I started up the access road,
> > which looked ordinary at first but then had chainlink topped by
> > barbed wire on both sides, closing in as I went, and road signs
> > basically becoming more and more threatening the farther I drove
> > up the mountain. Although I still hadn't seen a building (or even
> > a German shepherd) the one that stopped me said "ROAD CLOSED TO
> > YOU AT THIS POINT, ABSOLUTELY NO ACCESS" or something like that.
> > There was no place to turn around. So I backed and filled about
> > three times to turn around in the middle of the narrow road, and
> > left with the back of my neck tingling. I was sure I was on camera
> > or in somebody's telescopic sights by then...
> >
> > I ended up selling the land a few years later without having built
> > on it, and now don't live in the Washington DC area any more. But
> > every now and then I wonder - is it really another "secret"
> > location for Congress to hide, along the lines of the Greenbriar
> > Hotel that "nobody" knew about (except every local in WV and all
> > the reporters, of course).
> >
> > So does anyone have facts, hearsay or just good ol' innuendo?  :)
> >
> > -Charles
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