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On Thursday, Rappahannock’s people join millions of Americans across the country and around the world in celebrating Thanksgiving.
It’s a time for acknowledging the goodness and bounty of nature. At our Thanksgiving harvest feast, we eat and eat and then eat some more. Tables groan under turkey, dressing, cranberry sauces, beans, squash, baked and sauced apples, pickles, breads, potatoes, corn, pumpkin and mincemeat pies. There’s so much prepared that a meal of leftovers has become a follow-up custom.
It’s a time for strengthening family ties. Generations assemble to share the labor of fixing the meal, memories, traditions and love.
It is a time to look around and take stock of our blessings. We have much to be thankful for as people of this special county. This year, while we take inventory of the good things in our lives that come from living here, we should resolve to do what we can to ensure that they continue.
Rappahannock is the most beautiful of counties but it is a fragile beauty, a beauty that can be destroyed. There are small things we can do to protect that beauty that take little time, like pausing along a road to pick up a can or bottle that a litterer has carelessly tossed aside and keeping our own trash inside the car. There are things that take more effort, like organizing a group of Scouts for a clean-up campaign or getting together with neighbors to haul rusted out hulks of washing machines and ice boxes from one of the hundreds of illegal dumping sites scattered around the county. Then there are the things that take real effort and commitment: becoming familiar with the zoning ordinance, Rappahannock’s first line of defense against ill conceived and untimely development; regularly attending meetings of local government so as to be aware of what’s happening in the county and speaking out at those meetings in support of preserving Rappahannock’s unique character and beauty.
We have a wonderful place to
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