The Coulter homestead sat nestled on the northern tip of the Hampton Roads community along the James River. The fertile soil of the area cultivated family lines that were older than the nation that grew from and around it. In 1607, three tiny ships with 104 European men sailed up the James River and founded a community there. Family lore dated the Coulter family back to one of those boats. Tres couldn’t verify the absolute validity of the tale, but he did know the rolling land with its groves of pine and fields of corn nurtured the Coulter clan for several hundred years. Progress transformed many of the neighboring plantations into subdivisions and strip malls, but not the Coulter farm. Their land mass grew as his mother quickly purchased any bit of land bordering her property thereby isolating the homestead by 526 acres of woods. His mother wasn’t an environmentalist, probably never gave a single moment of thought to nature, but she did despise neighbors. Her work kept her in the public eye and her apartment in the capital city of Richmond kept her shoulder to shoulder with her neighbors, so when she came home to the “farm”
