He traveled 60 miles each way, every day, for the job that paid $17 an hour. The job helped him buy this plot of land, his first, so he never complained about the pre-dawn drive there or the bumper-to-bumper drive back home. But that job is gone now. It evaporated in the sputtering Northern Virginia economy. So Morgan, along with many others in Luray and surrounding Page County -- where unemployment recently was as high as 17.7 percent -- spend their days picking through the scant job listings, tending to daytime chores or hunting for day laborer work.
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