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Pat Moss comes to the door of the Barn– her house in Waynesboro– and wonders who the heck is standing on her doorstep. She’s forgotten that she has an interview scheduled this morning, but she quickly takes the interruption in stride and seats her visitors in her huge living room in a former apple packing barn.

You’d never build a barn like this today,” says Moss. “It wouldn’t pass code.”

The Barn is one of several Moss residences. She’s just in from her main home in Florida for an event at her eponymous museum, where she’s unveiling a new painting to raise money for Harrisonburg TV station WVPT.

Folks familiar with P. Buckley Moss only as the artist who paints distinctively elongated pictures of the so-called “plain people,” the Amish and Mennonites of the Shenandoah Valley, might wonder whether she’s as blankly upright as some of her images.

Moss quickly disabuses a visitor of that notion. She’s getting ready to go on a Disney cruise with her six children and 10 grandchildren. “Does that sound like fun?” she asks. “It sounds like a nightmare.”

Her career, by contrast, has been something of a dream. The wife of a chemical engineer, Pat Moss came to Waynesboro in 1964 at age 31 with five small children in tow and a sixth on the horizon. Today, her paintings hang in some of America’s top galleries, and her personal appearances have been known to draw standing-room-only crowds clamoring for prints that can sell for nearly $1,000 each.

By 1985, Moss was well known enough that the Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts held a retrospective of her work. A group of art teachers from Virginia Tech were there, and when Moss returned to the gallery, “They were ripp

Pat Moss comes to the door of the Barn– her house in Waynesboro– and wonders who the heck is standing on her doorstep. She’s forgotten that she has an interview scheduled this morning, but she quickly takes the interruption in stride and seats her visitors in her huge living room in a former apple packing barn.

You’d never build a barn like this today,” says Moss. “It wouldn’t pass code.”

The Barn is one of several Moss residences. She’s just in from her main home in Florida for an event at her eponymous museum, where she’s unveiling a new painting to raise money for Harrisonburg TV station WVPT.

Folks familiar with P. Buckley Moss only as the artist who paints distinctively elongated pictures of the so-called “plain people,” the Amish and Mennonites of the Shenandoah Valley, might wonder whether she’s as blankly upright as some of her images.

Moss quickly disabuses a visitor of that notion. She’s getting ready to go on a Disney cruise with her six children and 10 grandchildren. “Does that sound like fun?” she asks. “It sounds like a nightmare.”

Her career, by contrast, has been something of a dream. The wife of a chemical engineer, Pat Moss came to Waynesboro in 1964 at age 31 with five small children in tow and a sixth on the horizon. Today, her paintings hang in some of America’s top galleries, and her personal appearances have been known to draw standing-room-only crowds clamoring for prints that can sell for nearly $1,000 each.

By 1985, Moss was well known enough that the Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts held a retrospective of her work. A group of art teachers from Virginia Tech were there, and when Moss returned to the gallery, “They were ripping my work, saying, R