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Rappahannock Dutch
With Bill’s help — “He’s always liked to dabble in the arts” — she started a very specialized sign business, painting "Rappahannock Dutch” good luck symbols in bright reds, blues, greens and yellows. Linda can rattle off the significance of a score of drawings: a heart for love and kindness, clover and acorn for good luck, tulip for faith and hope, sun for eternity, waves for smooth sailing, an oakleaf for strength, an eight point star for abundance and a unicorn for virtue and piety.
So far, she’s had excellent response but this new venture is just getting off the ground and Lipda is still looking for a local outlet so it’s too early to tell if the hex signs will be her country business ticket.
In the meantime, she has stuck two more career irons in the fire. In January, Linda plans to resume her country swing dance lessons. “It's sort of like jitterbugging with a western flavor,” she explained. with the feet beating out a pony step while moving into routines with names like eggbeater, shuffle and pretzel.
Linda learned country swing while visiting her parents in Phoenix, Arizona. “Everybody does it there. All the bars give lessons. They teach classes from six to eight and when the band comes on at nine, you’re ready to dance!" Back home in Rappahannock. Linda demonstrated her country swing expertise at two talent shows and the annual fashion show put on by the Rappahannock Women’s Club, starting a mini-craze and a clamor for lessons in the new dance step. “It has a real country flavor. It looks like you're galloping when you do it—and it’s so much fun,” she said, trying to explain country swing's popularity in Rappahannock.
Singer With The Band
She’s also joined her friend Bill on stage as a singer in another brand new career. A local boy born in Middleburg and raised in Culpeper. Abernathy has played with the Okays, the county's premier rock band, for three and half years.
Bill was asked not too long ago to fill in with his guitar for a friend who played the piano at the Old Salem Inn. “He’s a little shy and he didn't want to get up there by himself so he asked me to sing a few songs with him.” Linda reported. They followed up that premiere appearance with a request from the proprietor of the Last Nickle Cafe in Culpeper to perform and next they played at Nature’s Foods in
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