DANNY BLICKENSTAFF stood in the middle of an acre of 100 royal paulownia trees planted eight years ago on his hilly 55-acre farm.

It turns northwest through a mix of hilly farms and woods with some homes, reaching the community of Virginville and becoming Main Street.

According to oral history, Story never recovered from the Great Depression (1929-1933), as families abandoned their hilly, marginal farms in search of work elsewhere, a departure plucked from The Grapes of Wrath.

PA 839 passes through Milton before entering Redbank Township and continuing north through a mix of hilly farms and woods, passing through McGregor.

He was the son of a wounded Confederate captain who returned from grim warfare to grinding destitution on a hilly farm near the town of Norwood in Nelson County, Virginia, along the eastern edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Back in 1900, with bubonic plague and yellow fever ravaging this tropical seaport, Brazilians chose a hilly farm far from the city limits as the site for what became Latin America's most prestigious school of public health.

On this hilly farm, which Mr. Yinger bought from his parents 13 years ago, Asian magnolias and camellias dot the hills where cattle once grazed.

The club, one of five in New Jersey, gathered on the hilly 70-acre farm of Gordon Smith to begin a season that will run until February.

"We were idiots," said Ms. Major, who set out to save the family homestead, a hilly, nonworking 250-acre farm that came with a flock of pet sheep.

PA 194 continues through a mix of hilly farms, woods, and homes before reaching Abbottstown.