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By THERESA REYNOLDS Hn|>|>nhnnn«»ok Vh» Stnff ^ rilrr Forty-seven years ago W. R. Burke opened up Burke’s store in Woodville, stocking items to fill most of the needs of local people. Country stores in those days were all rural people had for day-today shopping: no one in those thrifty post-depression years would think of driving 20 or 30 miles for a loaf of bread and a head of lettuce.
Years passed and money grew easier. Country stores in Rappahannock survived by filling the gaps between major shopping trips to Front Royal, Culpeper and Warrrenton. Farmers and farm workers who were left to their own devices during the day by working wives gathered at the store down the road for a lunch of crackers, canned meat and soft drinks. But when it came time to really stock up on groceries, off they would go to larger towns where the selection was wider.
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