Richmond is built on the sand of a million-year-old beach. It squats at the fall line, straddling the James, in the center of Virginia. Northeast of the city, the bay and its tributaries hold sway over primitive counties where fishermen labor to bring a catch from dying waters. At the state’s northern tip is the endless choking jumble of the Washington suburbs. To the west is the Piedmont, rising at the far edge of the state into the Blue Ridge Mountains. And below the river, stretching from the huge port complex around Norfolk to the Appalachian foothills, is the black dirt country, tobacco and peanut country, Southside Virginia.
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| — | Garrett Epps, in The Shad Treatment. It’s the best description of Virginia geography I’ve ever read. (via ottersamerica) |
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