My father’s agrarian community is gone and his and his many friends’stories are more like a dream. I am left cutting the grass and mutilating the weeds with my motorized weed-wacker.
Even I have to admit that working in a garden, picking tobacco, milking cows, stacking lumber or getting up before the first light appears were minor activities of my development. It is sad to say that living in an age of technology that many people can not relate to any aspect of farming. I knew the importance of the oak tree for my family’s company, Burruss Land & Lumber Company, and I knew how it was used in other Central Virginia companies but “the frame of civilization.” What was this all about? It is easy to see why I picked-up William Bryant Logan’s book Oak, the Frame of Civilization at a vacationing bookstore. It represents the generations of Burrusses that have worked the forests.
The oak leaf is the main image of my corporate logo.
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