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More than warm weather and bright leaves brought thousands of seasonal visitors to Rappahannock County last weekend. In addition to the annual House Tour and Dried Flower Sale, visitors were tempted to stay a little longer by a host of other events and activities.
The Rappahannock News peaked in on some of the activites, among them:
Auction Near Ben Venue
An executor’s auction that began Saturday morning between Ben Venue and Amissville registered more than 100 prospective buyers.
Auctioneer John Walker Jenkins presided over the event where items to be sold were so numerous the auction will be continued this Saturday, Oct. 27. The auction site is the property of Annie A. Cooke. The event will begin again at 10 a.m.
Club Holds Calf Sale
The second annual Rappahannock Club Calf Sale took place last Saturday at the farm of Thomas B. Massie in Washington.
Some 50 calves, nearly all of them steers, were scheduled to be auctioned to prospective 4-H and Future Farmers of America (FFA) buyers from Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The calves, born between last December and this past July, were hand
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