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RAPPAHANNOCK County’s Supervisors were exposed for the first time, at their November meeting, to the oratorical talents of a relatively new citizen. They were impressed; they immediately acted on a suggestion by James A. Rollison that state and federal officials do something positive in the fight on inflation by urging that state and federal anti-trust laws be strictly enforced.
Fauquier County’s Supervisors had been impressed by Rollison’s oratory, when he lived in their county. But James Rollison inadvertently (the adjective will be explained later) sold his farm near Orlean to some land developers, and was forced to seek other acres for himself and his aged mother, 86 head of cattle, 130 sheep and 21 oxen, plus assorted poultry and machinery. He resettled in Rappahannock’s Hampton District.
Rollison is ex-Marine Corps and widely read. He never went to college, but he met some graduates of Virginia Military Institute who impressed him, and he thinks VMI is one of the finest things that ever happened to Virginia and the nation. When he speaks, he cites references ranging from his Marine drill sergeant to Thomas Jefferson and Marcus Aurelius. His special hero is Robert E. Lee, and a large equestrian portrait of the Confederate military leader moved with him from Fauquier to Rappahannock.
HE ADDRESSED the Rappahan
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