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By PHILIPPA KIRBY Rappahannock New* Special Writer
Carla Eugster's “Nethers”, which she calls “an informal retreat for poets and chamber music musicians", is unique. Or rather, Eugster herself is unique. She is not only a poet, but also a viola player, and a worm farmer.
She believes that an individual’s creative side is helped by putting his or her hands in the soil, and the idea of close community with the earth itself is present in every aspect of the retreat.
The main building at the Nethers center near Woodville is an old, rambling farmhouse, naturally equipped with a cooling gloom in the summer heat. The ground floor is intended for community use, and the main room has comfortable old sofas and chairs lining the walls.
Above the furniture, from floor to ceiling, are row upon row of books, which seem to cover almost all aspects of literature.
It is in this room that Eugster hopes to establish a string quartet - one of her
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