CHAPTER 15
The Scenic Route
After that reflective moment, Priscilla had already decided to take the scenic alternate route along New York 17J. She veered off the interstate where vineyards in Mourné Placid—home to Mourné Wine—surrounded both sides of the narrow highway. To the north were the Sinclairville ski resorts and beyond them, the stables for training quarter horses.
Often, while driving to Prendergast from Columbus, she had enjoyed this long way home. Especially in the winters, she had loved scenes of the snowcapped country homes and shops and the few people who braved the out of doors on foot. “Oh, we must be looking at two-to-three feet, at least knee-deep,” was, she remembered, a common description of the average snowfall for Chautauqua County.
Besides the scenery, she had p
