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Rappahannock County is a special place. Part of that specialness comes from the spirit of neighborliness that touches every cluster of houses tucked back in a hollow field or hillside.
Volunteers drive senior citizens to town for a doctor’s appointment or grocery shopping. Families who have lost their homes and belongings to fire or flood find their living rooms refurnished, and closets and shelves filled again by donations from friends, acquaintances and people they don’t even know. Those bereaved by the loss of a loved one are given comfort from those same folks, whether in the form of a strong arm to lean on or a casserole for dinner that leaves them with one less thing to worry about. The young and the strong help the older and infirm by chopping wood, shoveling walks and mowing lawns. The “haves” give to the “have-nots” and the “have-nots” share what little they do have with those who have even less.
More than the beauty of the Blue Ridge, the sparkling streams, the rolling fields, this spirit is what makes Rappahannock a special place.
Last week, a few generous orchardists packed up some of that spirit for export. They donated a couple of truck loads of apples to jobless miners in southwest Virginia who
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