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Rappahannock’s generally quiet Harris Hollow echoed with shouts of glee and vibrated with music Saturday as forty-seven handicapped youngsters of the Metropolitan area frolicked on the hillsides at an all-day outing sponsored by the Downtown Jaycee Chapter of Washington, D.C. Mr. and Mrs. Robert J.Miko of Glen Eyrie Farm Inn and Mrs. Marietta Cheatham of Mountain Green opened their homes and were co-hosts for the group of boys and girls, ages 7 through 16, all of whom were blind. The Downtown Jaycees, with the cooperation of the Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind, the U. S. Marine Corps, Yellow Cab Company, Vint Hill Farms Station and Warrea ton Jaycees, arranged the day’s activities which involved over seventy adult volunteers. The Jaycees made their initial contact with the youngsters through the Lighthouse Institute and they were picked up at their individual homes gratis, by the Yellow Cab company, then taken to a central point where they boarded two large Marine Corps busses to begin the trip to Rappahannock Arriving at their destination about eleven o’clock, the group was welcomed by Mr. and Mrs. Miko at Glen Eyrie where picnic tables dotted the lawn in readiness for lunch. The Jaycees furnished and prepared a barbecue of hamburgers and hotdogs, with potato chips and lemonade accompanying it. This was topped with ice cream and watermelons. In the background, a public address system, furnished by the Warrenton Jaycees, filled the valley with country music. In the afternoon the children toured the farm, hearing and feeling the farm animals, including pigs, chickens, cow6, dogs and horses, which had been penned for the occasion. Eighteen pieces of farm machinery lined up in the front meadow were examined by the youngsters, and all had rides on horses or ponies, under the skillful handling of farm foreman, Billy Smoot and assistants. Mr. Smoot and the farm personnel, Herbert, Bobby, and Thomas Fincham, Charles^ Wayne, Ronny and Jerry Smoot, plus mascot Craig Smoot, all wore festive “Farmer Jones* overalls, red kerchiefs and straw hats. They helped with the rides and explained the general operation of the farm and orchards to
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