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IF anyone imagines that after our Fabulous Fourth became history with the final firework at Avon Hall, the Bicentennial Bugler folded his bugle and silently retired to the hill on which he perches merely to lay the instrument in some dark corner where its role in these tense times would be just to invest itself in tarnish—that one, to get to the main clause of this sentence, is wrong.
Quite wrong.
Hear, therefore, again the horn of plenty in the way of Country Carryings-on in the near future, after a brief pause to lament two casualties in the year-long program: the August anniversary of Washington Town’s historic and unique beginning, and the souvenir issue of the Rappahannock News due to an anemic infusion of historical plasma.
But the Program is alive and about to do well. For example: Later this month, probably the 25th, Capt. Howard Holschuh’s interesting and well received Slide Show will be repeated at a place and hour to be announced next week. Again it is necessary to defray expenses by charging a modest admission—75 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. Those who missed the previous showing should be happy to know they have Another Chance.
Next, rounding off, as it customarily does, the third weekend of October (the 16th and 17th) is the annual House Tour and sale of dried Flower Arrangements, a perennial favorite. A few (four) weeks later
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