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every other month in Flint Hill. Her exhibits are first class and duplicate shows held in prestigious New York galleries. She expects to attract a number of her old steady customers into making the drive out from D. C. and hopes that local people will be interested enough to drop by.
The Schumaker’s first showing was on a rainy Sunday afternoon—“a really crummy day,” Mary commented but still, about 25 people turned out.
The Schumakers are not exactly newcomers to Rappahannock. They’ve been coming to the county since 1970 when they rented a cabin in Jenkins Hollow near Sperryville. Later, they bought their ‘‘mountain house” outside of Flint Hill. Mary recalled that it became harder and harder to drag the kids back to the city after a weekend of clean air, quiet and slow country living. “We loved it here,” she said but their cabin was accessible only with a four-wheel drive vehicle and wasn’t suitable for full-time residence.
Then they noticed a “for sale” sign on the late Mrs. Fannie Eastham’s red brick home on Fodderstack Road, just outside of town. “We’d seen and admired the house for three years,” Mary remembered, “so we said ‘Let’s do it!’ ”. They put their “mountain house on the market and when it sold, used the money for the old Eastham place.
Asked if the Schumakers would make Rappahannock their permanent home, Mary responded, astonishment written all over her face. With a wave of her arm, she indicated her new home—kitchen cabinets constructed from replaned floor boards pulled up from another part of the house, knobs on the cabinets bought three years ago at the Washington fourth of July celebration and carried
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