Emporia Virginia is a pleasant pee stop for New Yorkers and Floridians speeding through southern Virginia. There are about five thousand souls, half white and half black - although, of course, no one is counting heads.
We have a small Mexican population attracted to Emporia by rental rates based on height. And, of course, manual labor which is, ironically, the name of the leading Mexican worker in town.
Emporia has a long history dating back to the 17th century and it is the site of several small squirmishes and a hanging or two as recently as the early 1900's. This lenghty history is housed in a small brick building opened on alternate Wednesdays. Hmm.
This blog is going to be an effort to keep all of you updated on the many happenings here including our prestigious Pork Festival, Peanut Festival, and Kudzu Carnival. Of course, currently, Jeffrey Dahmer has more followers than this blog.
We will also post Real Estate offerings and highlight a church a week and visit the most prominent industry in town: hair and beauty salons. We have, in fact, as many people in Emporia proportionally with hair as New York City!
Hope someone reads this! Next blog: The existential dilemma of blogs with no followers
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