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autumn years of their lives, has not only recorded the events of the past among the ridges and valleys of their beloved Rappahannock; they have managed to capture and fix for present readers (and those to come for many years into the future) the very character and heritage of a people. And they have done it with grace, understanding, and humor.
The reader who expects to find skeletons from family and public chests dusted ofl for their examination will be disappointed. The authors do not explicitly deny that there have been some things done in Rappahannock past which ought not to have been done nor some things left undone which ought to have been done. But their tale is unswervingly positive. Their approach appears to be the reverse of Shakespeare’s for they seem to say, “let the good that men do live after them and the evil be interred with their bones.” But the omission of scandal and negative gossip from their book is not due to the Johnsons’ inability to write accurate history. It is rather, I believe, a conscious desire to emphasize the laudable attributes of a people who could, over a 250 year span of time, hold fast against both natural and man-made disasters and still joke about them; live fruitful lives amidst war and peace; and pour out their sweat day after day as the years rolled by and not whimper, because they sweated for themselves and their children.
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