The Residents Of Ruthsburg, MD., have come here to escape. A cluster of cozy homes nestled amid rolling farmland on the state's Eastern Shore just 65 miles (105 km) from Washington, Ruthsburg has no stores, no stoplights and no noise apart from the geese squawking in nearby Tuckahoe State Park. "It's as if you turned back time 100 years," says resident Sherry Adam. But with a new neighbor angling to move in, this bucolic hamlet has become a battleground.
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