For decades, Alderson city residents strolled into the Garrett-Massey building on Riverside Avenue to make their deposit. It was an early bank in the colorful community. Now, residents rush to the old land-mark to make withdrawals.
 
Not cash. They're coming by the dozens to purchase Margaret Jack's home baked pies. "I sell whole pies at a time," the 60-year-old cook explained at her "Country Kitchen" restaurant. "Customers get them to go. Tourists take them when they leave town. Any kind of pies I bake, they buy." She added, "It keeps me busy just baking pies. I sold 25 pies on the Saturday before Easter."

Though her specialty is coconut cream, the Richwood native noted that her repertoire of homemade pies includes delicious apple, chocolate, butterscotch, lemon and cherry. Her pumpkin pies are a delicacy during the Thanksgiving season, she said.

But pies aren't the only tasty item on the menu at the country-style restaurant. Brown beans, fried chicken, baked ham, and garden salads of all kinds are served regularly at the establishment that's housed in the old bank building, replete with a concrete vault in the back-room.