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By TUTT STAPP-HARRIS
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THERESA REYNOLDS
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The Passing of a Legend
The Rappahannock community as well as the American theatrical community lost a good friend with the death of veteran trouper HELEN SHIPMAN PAWLEY last Friday in Charlottesville.
Tears may not be in order for Helen, who deeply believed in the invincibility of the human spirit, a belief for which she was most convincing proof.
After a glamorous career that spanned American theatre’s most exciting decades, Helen spent her last thirty years here in Rappahannock, devoted to her husband, Edward, and their beloved Rock Mills.
The Pawleys lost their first home at the juncture of the Thornton and Rush Rivers in the flood of 1979. Since the construction of their new home on the bluffs that Helen had named “sunset cliffs”, she rarely missed a sunrise or a sunset, even when the sky was overcast or rainy. “Who knows what the sky will do,” she used to say. Another favorite spot on her property at Rock Mills became known as “Helen’s Bathtub” and her delight in the natural pool inspired both a painting and a poem.
Frightened and in pain shortly before her death, Helen looked around at the worried faces of friends gathered in the hospital room of the plucky actress and cracked, “I’ve always loved an audience.” We will miss her. (TR)
Actors Backstage
The cast of WHERE I’M COMIN’ FROM took time out from preparations for their encore performance to share their ideas on the
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