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The Blue Dragon

My husband, Gene Moore (1962-1993), was office manager and accountant for Pitt & Greene Electric in Farmville for 31 years. When our boys were in grade school, we had a blue Chevrolet Nova. It was a unique car. When you started off, it would belch and a cloud of black smoke came out the exhaust. Our boys nicknamed it “The Blue Dragon.” I would take them to school, and they would ask me to let them off a block from the school so their friends wouldn’t see the belching and black smoke.

Later on, we got a new car. One day, the boys and I were riding down the road and we saw the “The Blue Dragon.” A teenager was driving it, and it had been wrecked with a crumpled front end, multiple dents and a cracked windshield. All of a sudden, the boys were very quiet. That car was a part of our family.

Ann Moore, Farmvill, Pitt & Greene EMC

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