For many eateries in the White Mountains, the cust...

For many eateries in the White Mountains, the customer is welcomed by exorbitant prices for pre-fab food, glaring down at them from the racks and shelves. You feel an overwhelming sense of guilt just being inside. You need not have any worry about that here.
The prices are fantastic. Many a Valley dweller, strapped for cash enough already by the admission price for a cabin or campground can easily afford not only a slice or two, but an entire pie. I'm from Tucson, and our local Claim Jumper infamously sells a Cream Cheese pie for, yes, $60. Imagine my surprise to see a rare, hard to find variety of pie like the Graham Cracker Cream going for $15!
I was staying with my Dad in a nearby mountain hamlet to see the Fall colors, a lifelong dream of ours. We stopped in when we ate at Aunt Nancy's next door, and took a menu. I found the Graham pie and was dismayed to see we would be back home in the South when they next opened. Here the owners of American Pie Company surprised me with their generosity and inventiveness. They agreed to make it, and deliver it to me the day before they opened for the week, by giving it to a little Health shop across the road. They had never met me before, but I promised to be by at the specified time, and was very happy that the pie, which had been expertly chilled (It survived, unscathed, an 8 hour car trip South) waiting for me.
The Pie, I'm afraid, survived for only two days once I got it home. Delicious, and usually found only in diners on the East Coast, it was a wonderful taste of my parents' homes back East. I will not forget their service and that they went to great lengths to get a total stranger a pie. Thank you!