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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New. Staff Writer
Lelia Noyes Lucas still celebrates life after 81 years. The gracious lady of Huntly’s Wakefield Manor is Rappahannock’s own Grandma Moses, opening the Corn Crib Gallery’s summer season with a debut exhibit of her watercolors this weekend.
Her sunny outlook is reflected in the bright hues of her wildflowersi the pastels of country scenes and the muted shades of a snow-covered lane. There’s nothing somber, gloomy or dark about anything that Mrs. Lucas paints.
And there’s nothing somber, gloomy or dark about Mrs. Lucas herself. “I’ve been blessed with an interesting life,’’ she explained. She enjoys living so much that she’s threatened to live to be 101. “I was born in 1899 so if I make it that long, I’ll have seen three centuries. Not many people can say that,” she smiled.
At 81, Mrs. Lucas is almost blind with only partial vision in one eye. But no pity,
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