Pulling up to the Oak Ridge Pantry in Spencer, Tennessee, a small country store Volkswagen had chosen to be our turnaround spot, we were greeted by a scene of the future shot through the lens of the past. Conspicuous by their absence were a set of gas pumps, so commonplace outside small stores out in the sticks.

Ensconced in a small Mennonite community, it featured, instead, a hitching rail with a horse tied to it, itself harnessed to a simple wagon.
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