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World War 1 — and his lips are sealed on that point.
‘‘Our book isn’t really about families. It’s about the people who made this county what it is today,” Elisabeth explained.
That’s not to say it doesn’t include a few salty stories. Ned tells about the county blacksmith, an inveterate drinker, whose doctor told him he had to give up alcohol or perish. The smithy begged for just three spoons of booze a day and when the doctor assented, he rushed to his blacksmith shop and made himself a spoon that was about a foot long.
Elisabeth bettered that tale with a piece of embarrassing history she dug out of Rappahannock records. It seems that before the advent of indoor plumbing in
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