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Divided they stand
Residents of city home proudly proclaim their loyalty to Virginia Tech--and the University of VirginiaDate published: 11/28/2008 On pretty afternoons, Link Linkous likes to watch people walk past his house, glance at the flag that flutters from his porch and do double-takes. Yeah, they're seeing that right. Half the flag is orange and maroon, with the "VT" of the Virginia Tech Hokies. The other half is the orange and blue of the University of Virginia Cavaliers. How the two state academic and athletic rivals could coexist--in one house, and on one flag--is a Prince Edward Street mystery. With the football teams scheduled to meet at noon tomorrow in Blacksburg, it was as good a time as any to look into the phenomenon. FORMING A TEAM Link and Martha Linkous have lived in this Fredericksburg house for almost all their married life. They met when Martha was still a girl in college, living in this home with her parents, who were renters. Link lived next door in a rented room, a bachelor newly moved from his native Blacksburg to work for the Soil Conservation Service here. He had a television, but his room was so hot he couldn't stand to sit in it and watch. So he offered to drive the set to his sister's apartment in Richmond. He wanted company on the ride that summer day, so he asked the girl next door. As they got home, he said, "We'll have to go out again sometime." She said, "How about tomorrow?" They married in 1961 and moved into an apartment building on the corner. Not long after that, they bought Martha's childhood home--the Prince Edward Street house Martha's parents rented--with the idea that the older couple would continue to live there. Link Linkous turned the upstairs into an apartment for him, his wife and the baby on the way. Many years later, that baby was a grown-up married woman, and she had a younger sister. Anne Hamm introduced that sister, Page, to a single fellow she'd met through work. Page Linkous and Steve Hall hit it off. They didn't realize it till later, but they had a lot in common. They were born just hours apart at Mary Washington Hospital. They were in the same kindergarten class at Hugh Mercer Elementary--though neither remembered the other. Five years after they met--or re-met--they got married. And they moved into that apartment upstairs. There was just one little problem.
Read more stories about Fredericksburg Date published: 11/28/2008
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