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William Shakespeare posed the question in the words of Hamlet, prince of Denmark: “to be or not to be.” Oft quoted and often paraphrased, these words have special significance for Rappahannock County—today and tomorrow.
Is Rappahannock to continue to be or not to be the beautifiil, relatively untouched, very special county it is today? Will it go on moving at a slower pace than its more urbanized neighbors? Will it remain linked to “yesterday,” in touch with the “old days?”
Or will its people be unable to prevent the destruction of their bucolic environment by greed and/or stupidity; or by the advance of what developers see as progress?
Can Rappahannock endure as the kind of utopia it is to many of its residents who discovered it in their flight from pressurized communities? Can it remain the environmental Shangri La its mountain setting helps to make it?
The county and its people will change. But in what manner?
Will Rappahannock’s evolution be like that of the small Virginia island of Chincoteague?
The passing years have altered Chincoteague’s environment
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