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At a celebration held Sunday, September 4. Patricia Saltonstall announced the establishment of a living memorial to the late Ranee Lee Spellman, manager of Saltonstall’s Points of View Farm who died last November.
The new memorial will annually recognize, honor and reward Rappahannock County youth for their mastery of one or more of a long list of skills essential to farming.
Saltonstall described farming skills as “a vanishing national asset" as necessary to the effort to preserve farmland and agriculture as are land use assessment programs, purchase of development rights and various other strategies being tried across the nation. The impressive and complex skills of her Mdyear-old farm manager w ere unknown to the average American city dweller or suburbanite, Saltonstall said. Or at least those skills were among the least recognized and most undervalued, she told the more than 200 guests assembled at Points of View for the memorial celebration.
Yet the skills necessary for farming are among the toughest to master, Saltonstall said. “Kids usually learn these skills at a father’s elbow, not in a school or college classroom. These skills are demanding, often dnagerous, requiring quick reflexes, cool judgement,
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