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The next thing I would do is either go to Lacy Park to play cribbage, which is a card game with a peg board that my husband and some of my friends play.

Not only is the inn attracting guests who want to stay somewhere connected with the history of the area, the Hodges are also staging monthly cribbage nights, the game being a passion of Roger’s.

One item really brings this community to life: a tiny carved peg that may have been used as a marker for scoring in a game, perhaps something like we use in a cribbage board.

It’s no wonder seasoned Burners sound a bit like griping cribbage players on a rural town square when they mutter: “It ain’t like it used to be.”

But his office door has always been open, an invitation for a pregame chat or game of cribbage.