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THIS & THAT
by entity b. miller
School opens Tuesday^ September 4, after three glorious months of vacation. Play toys will * be packed away and books unpacked. The children can't seem to understand why they have nine months of school and only three months of vacation "ain’t fair”!
It’s a wonderful thing to think about, how the sorrows and the troubles of a neighbor touches the , entire village. Its wonderful to know you have friends and they have time to help even in this "topsy-turvy” world, and have time for their fellow man. Its not &_bad old world, at that. To us, Rappahannock is the most beautiful and friendly place in the world. We include Sperryville, ,.j and its good people, as we do all towns in Rappahannock. Let’s forget this feuding, if there ever was such a thing, that must have started in the days of our forefathers. Our children go to school, parties, and play together, just start singing “Let’s call the whole thing off” and start all over again. , The last concert of the 1951 membership series was held Sunday at "Avon Mills” Those present for the three concerts showed, their appreciation of the music and of “Avon Mills” and its beauty, which is due to the. hard work, worry and trouble of George H. Davis, Jr., who has worked on the grounds and buildings so faithfully. Luncheon was served before the concert at “Mountain Green” the home of Mrs. R. L. Gheatham — "Mountain Green” dates back to Lord Fairfax—it was a beautiful settiiig to have a luncheon for the visiting muskians. --i. '"r' :
It seems the young men about town had a grape battle in the yard of Mrs. R. V. Snead last Thursday. The next morning Danny Price was asked by his grandmother, Mrs. Louise Price, who started the battle? Danny's answer was—"That’s what we wanted to know when we got through.”
"It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look . . . To affect the quality of the day—that is the highest of arts.”
—Henry Thoreau
---■•»/—Mrs.
Murat Willis of Richmond was a week-end guest of Mrs; W. M. Fletcher at “Thornton Hill.”
Mrs. Will Walter visited Mrs. Charlie Compton recently.
Dr. and Mrs. Lyle Millan and son, of Baltimore, were in Washington Monday.
Mrs. J. Rodes Brown, Jr., and daughter, Susan Stuart, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. Rodes Brown at “Rock Villa” while Mr. Brown is attending,js banker’s convention in Charlottesville.
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