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with Benji Roy and Missy Shanks, two little black children cast as her grandchildren. Doris sat in her rocking chair and began to tell what life was like in Rappahannock long ago. Her simple delivery was like a documentary. One could easily imagine the many other elderly Rappahannock residents whose oral history interviews formed the foundation for the play’s plot.

The set included a freestanding chimney with vines climbing it that stood by itself on the darkened stage to show the ruins where the mountain people’s homes had been destroyed—by disasters, government projects or the passage of time. But when the chimney was spun around its seemingly real fire showed the warmth of the homes inhabited by the characters. A few trunks full of props and clothes offered what would be needed

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