The holidays are getting off to a good start this weekend with art and music topping the list of things to do.

There are some people that you meet posthumously and wish you had known when they were alive and milling about through the community, doing good work and impressing upon people the type of wisdom gained through years of hard work and quiet observation.

Leon Brickhouse leans on a rail that separates him from a small herd of cattle. Dressed in a blue flannel work shirt, jeans and boots, the 77-year old Pasquotank County native looks very much the role of farmer.