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By EUGENE McCARTHY Rappahannock New* (iuest Columnist
Rappahannock County is secretive and private. It doesn’t easily tell much about itself. One must come to know it gradually, a little bit at a time, a small stretch of time, a piece of the land.
I have been concentrating on Rte. 618 and the land that borders it-the people that live along it. I have not undertaken to know all of Rte 618; not the part of it that runs east of Woodville, off Rt. 522, but roughly the five miles that run west from Woodville to join 522 and 231 in a closing of a triangle.
The first mile out of Woodville is a good road but quite undistinguished. It has a bituminous surface and runs between the well kept fields and pastures of Lane Properties. The fences along both sides of the road are generally free of honeysuckle and sumac and even of dogwood trees. It is an orderly stretch of road that changes quite suddenly soon after the first mile.
The tarred surface ends and gravel and stone take over on Rte 607 which disappears straight on and on 618 which makes a sharp turn to the right. It continues to run between Lane lands, but they become less cultivated and less controlled. To the left of the road is a pasture of sharp hills, rock out-croppings and patches of trees. To the right a field, suitable for com and other grain
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