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from first-hand knowledge.

“I’ve been here half as long as Rappahannock County. “I’ve lived through half of Rappahannock’s history,” he reported, pride in the county and its heritage evident in his voice.

Tapes Were Beginning

Inspired one evening, Ned recorded a two-hour tape of his recollections of Rappahannock’s history and legends. Friends who heard the tape urged the Johnsons to write a book and that suggestion plus the scarcity of information about the county's past supplied the impetus for their three-year labor of love. “We decided to try tying some of the facts to our corny little stories,” Ned explained.

“Fact, Fiction and Foolishness”—the FFF in the

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